Push It!

Mirella Christou is a multiple award-winning writer. She's a four-time Alfred P. Sloan Prize winner, twice for her script "Seven Eternities," and twice for "Push It!". She's the recipient of a fellowship at Film Independent in its Episodic Lab, sponsored by Netflix. She's been invited to a number of notable festivals for her writing -- the North Fork TV Festival (sponsored by The Gersh Agency), the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (2022/23), and the Austin Film Festival.

Her feature screenplay made the coveted "It List" of the best unproduced scripts in 2018 in Canada. Mirella has written, directed, and produced films, most recently the short "Lady Electric," a character-driven drama that was picked up to the streaming service, The Reel Women's Network.

Her work is exciting and highly topical, yet is rooted in history as well as literature.

Mirella has additionally written and produced for mobile storytelling platforms, creating an original animated series for Episode Interactive. Mirella enjoyed two and a half years in New York City where she completed her MFA at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, focusing on playwriting, television and film writing. She has worked for producers in television and off-broadway theatre in NYC and LA, where she honed her instincts for story and structure. She's originally from Toronto, where she worked as a journalist and was a producer of top-rated television news programs at one of the country's largest broadcasters. Her writing has been published in international newswires, magazines, and newspapers.