Pia Clemente is a Filipina-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]
Clemente is a 1989 graduate of the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. [3] 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 filmed called "Christmas in New York," which later won the Academy Award for Dramatic Short Student Film in 1997. [4] In 1993, Clemente graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute Conservatory.
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