Name: Mrritika 'Mou' Sarin
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: TV Track
Contact Email: mrittika.sarin@gmail.com
Short Bio: Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin is a queer Indian writer, raised in both Baltimore and New Delhi by parents who are from neither. She recently won Honorable Mention at the Sloan Grand Jury Prize from the Tribeca Film Institute with a feature about water scarcity, called SCARCE. She was also selected to be a part of the 2019 Women in Film Mentorship Program. Her other accolades include the Alfred P. Sloan Award in Screenwriting and the Traneka Davis Fellowship in TV Comedy. Before getting her MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, she was a writer on the official Indian remake of CRIMINAL JUSTICE (HBO’s THE NIGHT OF) as well as a creative producer on the Indian remake of THE OFFICE. As a development executive, her cultural fluency was vital for projects made in India for an international audience. She is passionate about exploring complex relationships and social issues like mental health, identity, and sexuality in all her work.
Short Artist Statement: I like to tackle complex relationships and emotions in all my work. Recently, I have found myself drawn to dramedies about trauma and characters struggling with mental health. I also incorporate my own cultural identity into everything I write because I feel it’s important to tell my story and to portray people who look like me.
Logline #1: CURRY - TV Show - In the cut-throat knife-flinging world of the culinary arts, a hot-tempered Indian-American chef, wants more than anything to prove her authoritarian father wrong and run an authentic Indian restaurant but after a particularly terrible review, Isha fires her entire staff and puts the restaurant at risk.
Logline #2: SGF - TV Show - Neurotic workaholic Aliya is eager to turn a substandard airport in the middle of nowhere around and leave but when a suicidal pilot crashes his plane through their new terminal, Aliya discovers that Springfield isn't going to let her go that easy.
Logline #3: GROUNDED - TV Show - Indian-American flight attendant Jiya Jha flies away from her problems and swats down relationships faster than an Boeing 747, but her dream of moving her base to Singapore's perfectly isolated flight culture is put on hold when she has a panic attack in front of a first-class passenger.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Orange is the New Black, Vida, Nurse Jackie
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: TV Track
Contact Email: mrittika.sarin@gmail.com
Short Bio: Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin is a queer Indian writer, raised in both Baltimore and New Delhi by parents who are from neither. She recently won Honorable Mention at the Sloan Grand Jury Prize from the Tribeca Film Institute with a feature about water scarcity, called SCARCE. She was also selected to be a part of the 2019 Women in Film Mentorship Program. Her other accolades include the Alfred P. Sloan Award in Screenwriting and the Traneka Davis Fellowship in TV Comedy. Before getting her MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, she was a writer on the official Indian remake of CRIMINAL JUSTICE (HBO’s THE NIGHT OF) as well as a creative producer on the Indian remake of THE OFFICE. As a development executive, her cultural fluency was vital for projects made in India for an international audience. She is passionate about exploring complex relationships and social issues like mental health, identity, and sexuality in all her work.
Short Artist Statement: I like to tackle complex relationships and emotions in all my work. Recently, I have found myself drawn to dramedies about trauma and characters struggling with mental health. I also incorporate my own cultural identity into everything I write because I feel it’s important to tell my story and to portray people who look like me.
Logline #1: CURRY - TV Show - In the cut-throat knife-flinging world of the culinary arts, a hot-tempered Indian-American chef, wants more than anything to prove her authoritarian father wrong and run an authentic Indian restaurant but after a particularly terrible review, Isha fires her entire staff and puts the restaurant at risk.
Logline #2: SGF - TV Show - Neurotic workaholic Aliya is eager to turn a substandard airport in the middle of nowhere around and leave but when a suicidal pilot crashes his plane through their new terminal, Aliya discovers that Springfield isn't going to let her go that easy.
Logline #3: GROUNDED - TV Show - Indian-American flight attendant Jiya Jha flies away from her problems and swats down relationships faster than an Boeing 747, but her dream of moving her base to Singapore's perfectly isolated flight culture is put on hold when she has a panic attack in front of a first-class passenger.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Orange is the New Black, Vida, Nurse Jackie