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Sanj Krishnan

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 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. Whilst at UCLA, Sanj received a Pigott/BAFTA Scholarship and a Ron Baham Memorial Fellowship in Comedy.

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: THE HONOURABLE AND CHIVALROUS SIR GREGOR MACGREGOR OF POYAIS (feature) - The real-life story of a glory-hunting Scot who fights in South America's Wars of Independence and declares himself ruler of a fictitious country, defrauding investors and luring migrants to squalor and death in the 19th century equivalent of Fyre Festival.

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)  ​
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  • Showcase 2022
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      • Badewitz, Malcolm
      • Billingsley, Jake
      • Birch, Kayleigh
      • Bradley, Geo
      • Cox, Zachary
      • Ford, Patrick
      • Franicevic, Sunce
      • Lindsey, Molly
      • Lux, Marcus
      • Monteagudo, Jennifer
      • Pierce, Cecily
      • Sewell, Samantha
      • Steves, Seis
      • Weerts, MJ
      • Whitty, Frankie
      • Wilsey, Hannah
      • Wyeth, Matt
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        • Badewitz, Malcolm
        • Birch, Kayleigh
        • Bradley, Geo
        • Cox, Zachary
        • Jarvis, Rachel
        • Jorquera, Manuela
        • Lindsey, Molly R
        • Lunde, Julia
        • Lux, Marcus
        • Monteagudo, Jennifer
        • Nelson, Anthony
        • O'Donahue, Connie
        • Pierce, Cecily
        • Russell, Caroline
        • Sewell, Sam
        • Steves, Seis
        • Weerts, MJ
        • Whitty, Frankie
        • Wilsey, Hannah
        • Wyeth, Matt
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        • Arellano, Jerónimo
        • Arthur, Zachary
        • Angonese, Kristen
        • Bernhardt, Payton
        • Cardamone, Giulia
        • Celani, Bia
        • Deibert, Adam
        • Flanagan, Vanita
        • Gallion, Candice
        • Garcia, Isabella
        • Gaudet, Kelly
        • Graham, Evan
        • Grush, Rosalind
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        • Hirsch, Jacob
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        • Lena, Amber
        • Lyu, Philip
        • Natarajan, Divija
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        • Wen, Amy
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        • Jakim, Elyssa
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        • Joyce, Natasha
        • Kim, Regina
        • Krishnan, Sanj
        • McCain, Amber
        • Overy, Alexandra
        • Parker, Jaclyn
        • Sarin, Mrittika 'Mou'
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        • Wang, Gene
        • West, Aidan
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        • Kozak, Jessica
        • Losch, Ariana
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        • Pascal, Lea
        • Priest, Sonny
        • Rasso, Erika
        • Reilly, Shannon
        • Shaffer, Tyrrell
        • Shore, Kianna
        • Sim, Harrison
        • Soares, Barbara
        • Strathmore, Kelly
        • Wignall, Catherine
        • Yin, Yiyi
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        • Abedin, Cooper
        • Ademulegun, Bisi
        • Altunin, Yaroslav
        • Batavia, Julia
        • Beall, Charles
        • Buda, Liz
        • Chambers, Mark
        • Cieslar, Katrine
        • Emerson, Skye
        • Gilman, Dan
        • Hamill, Ian
        • Harter, Julia
        • Masters, Leon
        • Mizrahi, Jake
        • Moriarty, Julia
        • Pinzon, Nico
        • Potter, Jordan
        • Schmid, Belinda
        • Segal, Guido
        • Stratton, Danielle
        • Tino, Dan
        • Tucker, Trina
        • Vivell, Steven
        • Wankier, Andrew
        • Whang, Laura
        • Wolter, Kimberly-Rose
        • Yim, Paul
      • Class of 2017 >
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        • Carnie, Karolyn
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        • White, Lynelle
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