Kit Zauhar (born 1995) is an Asian American filmmaker best known for the feature films Actual People and This Closeness.
Her mother is a Chinese immigrant who came to the United States to study medicine, while her father is white.
In high school, Zauhar directed her first short film, titled It Was Fall.
[3][4] While attending NYU, Zauhar wrote and directed the short film Helicopter, released in 2016.
[6][7] Zauhar wrote, directed, and starred in her debut feature, Actual People, an autofictional work inspired by her her final week at NYU which premiered at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival.