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Sarita Khurana is an English-Indian producer, director and writer.

Early life
Originally born is 1970 in London England to Indian parents, Khurana grew up with a large degree of diversity. While living in New York Khurana gained major interest in the arts, predominately film. Growing up Khurana would often find it irritating and bothered being an adamant movie lover and being unable to relate to films because she felt there was a lack of representation and misrepresentation of Asian women and immigrants like her. She knew she was different but she would find his to be her advantage. Films became important to Khurana when she would go to theatres to watch many Hollywood movies and would see a misrepresentation of Indian people. After constantly seeing films that guided negative and incorrect images of her people, this sparked ambition to showcase images and art that represented culture and difference. She wanted to tell be able to shine light on stories and faces that were misrepresented and left in the dark.

Career
After moving to New York Khurana, would link together with various aspiring filmmakers with an intent to generate audience by producing films with meaningful content. Focusing on topics specific to gender struggles, religious discrimination, and third world problems, her work would turn experimental and creative. Khurana would receive her Bachelors Degree from Oberlin college. She then later received her M.F.A in film and a ED.M both from Harvard University. Khurana would primarily gain recognition and notoriety after linking up with fellow creative film maker Chitra Ganesh. Together they would create her narrative short story ‘What Remains’. The story follows a young Indian woman who return to her homeland to encounter many unsettling past memories. In 2004, Sarita would create a documentary that would spark great discussion and popularity. Bangla East Side, is a film that follows Muslim kids from Bangladesh following the September 11th attacks. The film would generate great applause for its capture of dimensional realities of those suffering from this terrible attack. Khurana’s name began to generate acclaim, by 2009 she was named as one of New York’s Women in Film and Directing “Emerging Female Directors.” She has spoken about her primary goal in filmmaking as being a platform to share stories of those unrepresented. She became co-founder of the international development lab for narrative film non as Cine Qua Non Lab. Her breakthrough moment in film would come with the release of ‘A Suitable Girl’. The film follows young girls in India, as they prepare for marriage arranged my family. ‘A Suitable Girl’ premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and would go on to screen at film festivals internationally. Khurana would go on to receive the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director award.