Roma Sur is a writer, filmmaker, storyteller who investigates the emotional space between cultures and across continents.
Roma Sur is a screenwriter and filmmaker, who found her niche in narrating cross-cultural stories that channel her Asian American immigrant experience and her childhood growing up in cosmopolitan India. She writes young adult and female driven dramas with levity, typically with a diverse cast. Her characters are typically underdogs, extracted from their comfort zones and put on a path to redefine who they are.
Her recent screenplay The Rock Within has been a second rounder at Sundance feature lab, 2018, an official select, at the Stowe Story Labs, 2018, an invited project at the Stowe Spring Retreat, 2019, a second rounder at India’s leading pitch market, Film Bazaar, 2019, and a quarter finalist at Screencraft’s Funding contest, 2019. She has also served as an Executive Producer on two award-winning web series, and directed and produced five award-winning documentaries. She recently received the 2020 President’s Diversity award, one of the highest honors across all four campuses of University of Colorado.
Sur came to the US in 2000 to pursue her Master’s degree in Film and Video Production at the University of Denver. She completed her Master’s program in 2003 with a focus on screenwriting and went on to receive the Harold Mendelsohn Graduate student award. Following her graduation, she worked for four years with two production houses in Denver, High Noon Entertainment and Citizen Pictures.
Her writing credits include Discovery Channel's 'Surprise by Design,' HGTV's 'Offbeat America' and 'Dream House,' Food Network's 'Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels,' and Extreme Cuisine, Denver's 5280, LA's 'Valley Scene Magazine,' India's 'Film India Worldwide,' 'Good Housekeeping' Magazine, and a 210-page book titled 'The World of Manick Sorcar: Where Art becomes Magic.
From 2009 to 2022, Sur taught fiction and non-fiction writing for the Film and Television program at CU Denver. While there, Sur led the study abroad program titled, Bollywood Connections. This program fostered the seed for a long-term relationship between Whistling Woods university in Mumbai and University of Colorado-Denver College of Arts & Media. Thanks to Sur, her work, and her communications, a formal partnership was established between these two universities in 2022.
In September 2022, Sur started working as a screenwriting and film production faculty member at the University of Denver’s Media, Film and Journalism department.
Before coming to the US, Sur completed her Master’s degree in American and Commonwealth Literature from India. Following that she worked as a Copywriter and Senior Copywriter with international agencies like Saatchi and Saatchi and McCan Erickson, India.
Sur has also served as a Script Reader and a screener at the Denver International Film Festival.
Sur lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and her son.
Professional Writing Workshops
Fernanda-Rossi, Documentary Script Doctor, 2012
Karl-Iglesias, UCLA Script Consultant, 2016
Alessandra-Pillar, Fiction Script Doctor, 2017
Linda-Seger, Fiction Script Doctor, 2018
Mentorship with Tangerine Entertainment, New York, 2018 – 2019
Stowe Spring Retreat, 2019