Name: Sanj Krishnan
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature Track
Contact Email: sanjkrishnan@g.ucla.edu
Short Bio: Sanj is a screenwriter based in London and Los Angeles. Born and raised in England (with a couple of years spent in India), he found a love of storytelling and filmmaking from a young age. So naturally he went and studied law, graduating with degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University. After working as a human rights and criminal defense barrister, with stints in policy work, he traded his powdered wig for a copy of Fade In Pro.
Short Artist Statement: Sanj's writing blends adventure, fantasy and magical realism with themes of power and oppression, family ties/shackles, and characters whose worldviews are upended by journeys to new worlds.
Logline #1: Coolie Crusade (feature) - A peasant brother and sister from India become indentured laborers in Belize as they search for powerful Maya artifacts that could give them a fair shot at life in the British empire—or the power to overthrow it.
Logline #2: Para-Legal (hour-long) - A dedicated Los Angeles attorney fights cases that turn on the existence of the supernatural, risking her credibility—and her life—to pursue justice and the truth even when they are alien to the law.
Logline #3: Far from the Tree (half-hour) - After fleeing his despotic home country of Libertad, snowflake Simón has a good life and exile cred in the safe space of grad school in the USA. Until the State Department forces him to become a double agent and befriend the dictator back home — his father.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Princess Mononoke (1997)
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature Track
Contact Email: sanjkrishnan@g.ucla.edu
Short Bio: Sanj is a screenwriter based in London and Los Angeles. Born and raised in England (with a couple of years spent in India), he found a love of storytelling and filmmaking from a young age. So naturally he went and studied law, graduating with degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University. After working as a human rights and criminal defense barrister, with stints in policy work, he traded his powdered wig for a copy of Fade In Pro.
Short Artist Statement: Sanj's writing blends adventure, fantasy and magical realism with themes of power and oppression, family ties/shackles, and characters whose worldviews are upended by journeys to new worlds.
Logline #1: Coolie Crusade (feature) - A peasant brother and sister from India become indentured laborers in Belize as they search for powerful Maya artifacts that could give them a fair shot at life in the British empire—or the power to overthrow it.
Logline #2: Para-Legal (hour-long) - A dedicated Los Angeles attorney fights cases that turn on the existence of the supernatural, risking her credibility—and her life—to pursue justice and the truth even when they are alien to the law.
Logline #3: Far from the Tree (half-hour) - After fleeing his despotic home country of Libertad, snowflake Simón has a good life and exile cred in the safe space of grad school in the USA. Until the State Department forces him to become a double agent and befriend the dictator back home — his father.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Princess Mononoke (1997)