Sarita Khurana is a film director, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.
10 Facts About Sarita Khurana
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Sarita Khurana was born in London, England in 1970, and grew up in New York City.
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Sarita Khurana felt frustrated at the lack of representation or the misrepresentation of Asian women and immigrants in film.
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Sarita Khurana was part of an influential group of South Asian academics and activists working in New York in the mid-1990s.
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Sarita Khurana contributed an essay to Sara Hill's 2007 anthology, Afterschool Matters: Creative Programs That Connect Youth Development and Student Achievement published by Corwin Press.
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Sarita Khurana has received numerous awards, and fellowships over her career including the prestigious Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2017, and the Pew Fellowship.
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In 2015 Sarita Khurana was awarded the NALIP-Diverse Women in Media Residency Lab Fellowship in Vermont.
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Sarita Khurana received a grant from Asian Women's Giving Circle in 2019 and a Fellowship from the Center for Asian American Media in 2020.
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Sarita Khurana is the co-founder of Cine Qua Non Lab, an international development lab for narrative feature films founded in 2008, based in Mexico and the US The collaborative lab includes Jeannie Donohoe, Julie Buck, Luis Trelles and Jesus Pimentel Melo.
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In May 2020, Sarita Khurana made a short film called Home, Delivered for A-Doc's Covid Stories series about work community groups are doing in support of South Asian seniors in Queens, NY.