Mirella Christou
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Mirella Christou is a multiple award-winning writer. She's a four-time Alfred P. Sloan Prize winner, twice for her script "Seven Eternities," (about the early revolutionary days of psychedelic research) and twice for "Push It!" (an incredible series about how the birth control pill was created and the woman who financed it all, igniting the sexual revolution). She's the recipient of a fellowship at Film Independent in its Episodic Lab, sponsored by Netflix.
She's been invited to several notable festivals for her writing -- the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (2022/3/4), the Austin Film Festival (2022), where her script was in the top 2%, the North Fork TV Festival (sponsored by The Gersh Agency), and she was a finalist at the Sundance Episodic lab (2024).
Her feature screenplay "Lady Electric" made the "It List" of the Best unproduced scripts by the Canadian Film Fest / Harold Greenberg Fund. The short film version she directed and produced is available to stream.
Mirella completed her MFA at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts in Dramatic Writing, and subsequently worked for Emmy-award winning producers in television and off-broadway theatre in NYC and LA, where she honed her instincts for story and structure.
She's originally from Toronto, where she worked as a journalist and was a producer of top-rated television news programs at one of the country's largest broadcasters, focusing on finance, politics, and international news.
Mirella writes stories that immerse an audience into the minds of psychologically complex, contrarian characters. She has carved a niche of utilizing IP and bios to launch adventures of the unexpected. Her work is exciting and highly topical, yet is rooted in history as well as literature.
She is both a Canadian and EU citizen.
She's been invited to several notable festivals for her writing -- the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (2022/3/4), the Austin Film Festival (2022), where her script was in the top 2%, the North Fork TV Festival (sponsored by The Gersh Agency), and she was a finalist at the Sundance Episodic lab (2024).
Her feature screenplay "Lady Electric" made the "It List" of the Best unproduced scripts by the Canadian Film Fest / Harold Greenberg Fund. The short film version she directed and produced is available to stream.
Mirella completed her MFA at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts in Dramatic Writing, and subsequently worked for Emmy-award winning producers in television and off-broadway theatre in NYC and LA, where she honed her instincts for story and structure.
She's originally from Toronto, where she worked as a journalist and was a producer of top-rated television news programs at one of the country's largest broadcasters, focusing on finance, politics, and international news.
Mirella writes stories that immerse an audience into the minds of psychologically complex, contrarian characters. She has carved a niche of utilizing IP and bios to launch adventures of the unexpected. Her work is exciting and highly topical, yet is rooted in history as well as literature.
She is both a Canadian and EU citizen.
