Pia Clemente

Pia Clemente is a Philippines-born American film producer best known for being the first Filipina-American nominated for an Oscar for Our Time is Up in the live action short film category in 2005^[1] and as the producer of The Debut which was the first major Filipino American film to be shown in national theaters.^[2]

Early life and education

Clemente was born in the Philippines and removed to New Jersey at the age of three.^[3] is a 1989 graduate of the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey.^[4] Clemente first attended Lehigh University in 1989 and later transferred to Barnard College in 1990 where she was on both tennis teams. She was an Academic All-Ivy tennis player and had dreams of playing professionally before she suffered an injury and turned her interest toward theater and film. While at Barnard, Clemente produced a short film called Christmas in New York, which later won the Academy Award for Dramatic Short Student Film in 1997.^[5] In 1993, Clemente graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English. Afterwards, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute Conservatory.

Works

• Christmas in New York
• The Debut (2001)
• Our Time is Up (2005)

References

1. "Clemente '93 is First Filipino American Woman Nominee in Academy History". Barnard News Center. Archived from the original on 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
2. "The Talented Miss Clemente". Ana La O. Archived from the original on 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
3. La O, Ana (22 August 2006). "The Talented Miss Clemente". international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
4. Staff. "Pia Clemente '89 Nominated for Oscar" Archived 2009-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, Peddie School, March 1, 2006. Accessed February 5, 2011.
5. "Silver Anniversary Honoree Profile: Pia Clemente '93BC". Columbia University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-05-14.