Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin is a queer Indian screenwriter and filmmaker, based between Los Angeles and Mumbai. She has writing credits on CHICAGO MED as well as CRIMINAL JUSTICE, a BBC adaptation for India. Her climate thriller SCARCE has been awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Award and supported by the Athena Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. Before getting her MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, she was a development executive. Her cultural fluency was vital for projects made in India for an international audience so her boss decided to nickname her “export-import.” Now she’s technically an “export-import-export” but that depends on which country you’re looking at this from. This is what she loves about screenwriting: exploring complex identities and transcending borders.