Sarita Khurana is an award-winning filmmaker whose feature film A Suitable Girl won the 2017 Best New Documentary Director Prize at Tribeca Film Festival, and is currently available on Netflix worldwide and Amazon. Her newest feature documentary, Seat at the Table (2026), chronicles the rise of South Asian Americans in U.S. politics. Her other films include The Last Resort (2025), which won the Best Documentary Award at the International South Asian Film Festival Canada, and the Emmy-nominated short film Crossroads (2022), as part of the “Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond” series.

Sarita’s films have been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Women’s Giving Circle, Women in Film, World Channel/PBS, and the Center for Asian American Media, among others. Sarita is the co-founder of Cine Qua Non, an international development lab and residency for filmmakers, based in Mexico and the United States. She holds an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University, and splits her time between Montreal and New York.