Gursimran Sandhu is an award-winning writer-director.
She is currently a Co-EP on Julie Plec and Carina MacKenzie’s WE WERE LIARS at Amazon.
Previously, she wrote on Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy’s FALLOUT at Amazon,
Lulu Wang’s EXPATS at Amazon,
the Russo Brothers’ CITADEL at Amazon,
Kitsis and Horowitz’s Beauty & the Beast Prequel at Disney+,
Simon Kinberg and David Weil’s INVASION at Apple,
the Star Wars series THE BAD BATCH for Disney +,
and staffed on HBO’s award-winning hit series GAME OF THRONES.
Her film HOMECOMING screened in over 45 festivals and was a finalist for the Director's Guild of America Award. Her personal essay "When My Indian Mom Divorced My Dad, She Became an Outcast. It Also Saved Her Life" went viral on the Huffington Post.
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SÉAMUS (short film, 2k)
Shot on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Séamus premiered in competition at the LA Shorts International Film Festival, and is an Official Selection of the Cork International Film Festival and HollyShorts Film Festival.
HOMECOMING (short film, 35mm)
Finalist for the Director's Guild of America Student award, Recipient of the Leo Freedman Master Fellowship in Film & Television Arts, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship in Film and the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant.
"When My Indian Mom Divorced My Dad..."
An autobiographical op-ed article in the Huffington Post which was shared more than 7,000 times.
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