Lena Khan is a Canadian-American writer and director of Indian descent. She studied film at UCLA. Khan wrote and directed her first feature film, The Tiger Hunter (2016), a heartwarming story about the immigrant experience based on the story of Khan's grandfather, which released in over 70 cities nationwide and garnered effusively positive reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and more. Since then, she has directed feature films such as Flora & Ulysses (2021) and Best of the Best (2026). In 2022, she directed an episode in the second season of the series The Mysterious Benedict Society which earned her an Emmy nomination.