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Mirella Christou is a multiple award-winning writer and the founder of her own freelance writing company. She's a four-time Alfred P. Sloan Prize winner, twice for her script "Seven Eternities," and twice for "Push It!". She's the recipient of a fellowship at Film Independent in its Episodic Lab, sponsored by Netflix. She's been invited to notable festivals for her writing -- the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (2024), the North Fork TV Festival, sponsored by The Gersh Agency, the Austin Film Festival (2022) where her script was in the top 2%, and was made a finalist at Sundance (2024 & 2025), where her script was deemed "marvelous."

Her latest episodic script "Dry Powder" is a compelling thriller in the espionage genre and was named a finalist in the Lilly Wachowski founded Anarchist United Fellowship in 2026.

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Mirella comes from a career in journalism and television news producing at some of the biggest global firms, where she covered stories of national and international import. She completed her MFA at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts in Dramatic Writing.

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Her work is highly topical and character-driven, yet is rooted in history as well as her love of literature.

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