Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin is a queer Indian writer, raised in both Baltimore and New Delhi by parents who are from neither. She is pretty used to being the odd one out and this inadvertently led her to screenwriting, the only career choice where this is valued. She recently won Honorable Mention at the Sloan Grand Jury Prize from the Tribeca Film Institute. Her other accolades include the Alfred P. Sloan Award in Screenwriting, Humanitas semi-finalist in both Comedy and Drama, and multiple scholarships for TV writing. Before getting her MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, she was a development executive. Her cultural fluency was vital for projects made in India for an international audience so her boss decided to nickname her “export-import.” Now she’s technically an “export-import-export” but that depends on which country you’re looking at this from. This is what she loves about screenwriting: exploring complex identities and transcending borders. 

She has recently won a place in the 2019 Women in Film Mentorship Program. Before moving to Los Angeles, she was credited as creative producer on the Indian remake of THE OFFICE as well as a writer on the Indian remake of CRIMINAL JUSTICE (THE NIGHT OF). She is passionate about writing complex relationships and incorporating social issues into all her work.