Sarita Khurana is a NY-based director/producer who works in the documentary and narrative genres. Her work is concerned with stories pertaining to the South Asian subject, often female. Themes of migration, community, memory, marginality, territory, and sexuality pervade. Her most recent short narrative film, “What Remains” (2013), screened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Goteborgs Konsthalle in Sweden, and the CAAM Asian American Film Festival. Her documentary, “Bangla East Side” (2004), about Muslim teens growing up in post 9-11 New York, won a NY Times production grant, and is distributed by Third World Newsreel. She is currently working on a documentary on arranged marriage in India, The Marriage Brokers, which was recently selected for the National Film Development Commission of India’s Work-in- Progress Lab (2015), as well as Film Independent’s Documentary Lab.

Khurana holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was the recipient of the NY Women in Film & Television’s “Emerging Female Directors” 2009 award, and has been a film fellow at Art in General, NALIP-Diverse Women in Film, and Cine Qua Non Lab. Her work has been featured in festivals, galleries, and universities in the U.S., India, and Europe.