Amita Sarin

Executive Producer at Cultural Literacy Associates
Screenwriter

Bethesda, Maryland

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About Amita

Writer, Storyteller, Researcher
My first screenplay, based on historical events and characters and set in India, Europe and USA, was optioned and was in development for 2 years, but the contract expired due to Covid. I was actively looking to place THE LAST ROYALS which I have written both as a feature and a pilot for a TV series, but last year I learned that a major studio in Mumbai was going to produce a drama series on the same person. I decided not to waste any more energy on this project.

I taught university courses on Indian art and cultural history as an adjunct lecturer, and am available to consult on movies and TV shows about India.

In addition, I taught a course on World Sacred architecture and am now making a documentary THE NATION'S CAPITAL: HOME TO THE WORLD about places of worship in the Washington DC metropolitan area where I live. It is now in post production. I hope to make further films in a series A SACRED PIECE OF HOME.

I have also written a pilot for a TV series - A DIFFERENT WORLD about a widow from New Delhi who comes to live with her married children in the USA and the challenges she faces. It placed as a finalist in the Cinema Street shorts contest.

I am an immigrant from India and have authored two non-fiction children's books on India and am thinking of writing a screen play based on one of them, about Akbar, a Mughal king in 16th century India. Ideas range from an animated series for children based on historical paintings from Akbar's reign.

Toying with the idea of writing a short comedy series about an older couple, both Punjabis from India and their day-to-day repartee as they read the news and grapple with major and minor health issues, prejudices and predispositions. Based on myself and my husband, tentatively titled: VERY CLOSE TO THE TRUTH.

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LAST ROYALS Budget: $30M+ | Historical What is a former Princess and now Member of Parliament doing in a New Delhi prison and what is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi going to do to her?
THE LAST ROYALS Historical ⋄ Drama Why is this charismatic woman who grew up in palaces and gave speeches in Parliament incarcerated in a New Delhi prison and what is Mrs. Gandhi going to do to her?
A DIFFERENT WORLD Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama A widowed woman from New Delhi struggles to adapt to a different lifestyle when she moves in with her son and daughter-in-law in USA.
VERY CLOSE TO THE TRUTH Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Less than 10 minute comedy vignettes about an older Punjabi couple who have lived in the US their entire adult lives. Both utterly opinionated they lock heads over just about anything - the news, politics, food, friends and life in general. A well-disguised undercurrent of affection as well as fears of approaching death and old age runs beneath their quarrelsome banter. Based on myself and my husband.
THE KING AND THE STORYTELLER Historical Akbar and Birbal are a legendary subject of folklore in India. This feature-length drama looks at the historical 16th century Mughal emperor and his friendship with a Hindu bard, who according became a close companion and member of his inner circle.
AKBAR: THE BOY KING Historical ⋄ Animation This animated series or feature for children is about the childhood of Akbar the Great, the Mughal emperor of India in the 16th c. The drawings would be based on historic Mughal paintings that illustrate the emperor's biography the Akbarnama.