Sarba received her B.A. in Philosophy and Film Studies from Yale University and an M.F.A. in directing from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts. While making shorts at film school, she was the recipient of the Helena Rubenstein Scholarship, the Willard T. Johnson Scholarship and the Academy Foundation Internship Grant.

In 2009, her feature directorial debut, Karma Calling premiered at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival to sold out audiences. The critically-acclaimed film is currently touring on the festival circuit picking up Best Feature Film Awards at the New Jersey International Film Festival and the Philadelphia Film Festival in addition to an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The screenplay for Karma Calling was the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Richard Vague Production Award.

She has made several short films including Passage, an all-Indian production shot in the eastern state of Orissa. Her latest short film Mausi: or how an old lady finds her way back to India was featured at the Telluride Film Festival’s Filmmakers of Tomorrow program and was distributed by Canal+. In 2001, she directed the documentary Nagas of the Kumbha Mela with her brother Sarthak with whom she collaborates as a writing duo.

Sarba has also worked in development at HBO Films and as a marketing consultant for Picturehouse (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Roadside Attractions (Super Size Me). Since 2008, Sarba began working as a director/producer for unscripted series for major networks like ABC, NBC VH1, MTV, SYFY. She recently produced two seasons of ABC’s Emmy-award winning series Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

Sarba has been a student of Indian classical dance (Odissi style) for almost 25 years and has performed in India, the US, and Canada. Fluent in Oriya, French, and Polish, Sarba is an avid student of Vedic scripture, mythology, and meditation. She lives in Los Angeles.