Roma Sur is a screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker, who found her niche in narrating cross-cultural stories that channel her Asian American immigrant experience and her childhood growing up in cosmopolitan India.
Roma Sur is a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, residing in Denver, Colorado. Sur has served as an Executive Producer on two award-winning web series, and directed and produced four award-winning documentaries.
Her stories are young adult and female driven dramas with levity, that are a cross-pollination of her immigrant experience of living in the US for twenty years, and her childhood in India. Her works have screened globally at Mumbai International Film Festival, NDTV, Golden Door International Film Festival, Breckenridge Film Festival, Global India Film Festival and many more.
Her most recent documentary, Three Worlds One Stage, is currently available on iTunes, Amazon and twelve digital platforms. It is distributed by Freestyle Digital Media.
Her recent feature screenplay, The Rock Within, was a second rounder at the Sundance Asian American lab, an invited project at the Stowe Story Labs and Stowe Spring Retreat, and acknowledged by Screencraft’s Funding contest as well as India’s leading pitch market, Film Bazaar. She is in pre-production for this project, along with her producing partner, Jessica McGaugh (jessicamcgaugh.com)
She has been teaching fiction and non-fiction writing at the University of Colorado, since 2009. Sur leads the study abroad film production program to Mumbai, titled Bollywood Connections. She recently received the 2020 President’s Diversity award.
She is in currently in pre-production for the webseries, @womanhood_theseries which was shot in summer 2021. Her role is that of a screenwriter.
  • Producer (1 Credit)
    Maa2021
    Documentary
  • Writer (1 Credit)
    Maa2021
    Documentary
  • Director (1 Credit)
    Maa2021
    Documentary
Honorable Jury Mention
Maa
Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival
Delhi
2022
Winner, Best Short Doc Category
Maa
Jaipur International Film Festival
Jaipur
2022
Winner, Best Short Documentary
Maa
Global Indian Film Festival, Mumbai
Mumbai
2022
Best Director
Maa
SMIF, Asian Film and Video Festival in Spain
Madrid
2021
Semi-finalist
Maa
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
Rhode Island
College
University of Denver (DU)
Screenwriting
20012003
Current City
Denver
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
Asian-American
Married To
Abhi Sur
Children
1
"You are never too small to make a difference." - Greta Thunberg
Roma Sur is a screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker, who found her niche in narrating cross-cultural stories that channel her Asian American immigrant experience and her childhood growing up in cosmopolitan India.
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