Roma Sur - Filmmaker || Educator
Roma Sur is a filmmaker and educator who currently teaches a variety of media studies, film production, and scriptwriting classes at the University of Denver’s Media, Film and Journalism department. She grew up on a rich diet of global cinema, and was heavily influenced by the works of Aparna Sen, a Bengali female filmmaker and actor.
Her recent screenplay The Last Ember 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). Her films have screened across the globe including the Mumbai International Film Festival, NDTV, and Rocky Mountain PBS. Her feature film Three Worlds, One Stage is available through iTunes/AppleTV, Amazon, Roku, Vudu, and Walmart. She also sits on the shorts programing committee of the Colorado Dragon Boat Asian Film Festival.
As an educator, her dream is to travel with her students and make films in different corners of the world. Internationalization combines her love for teaching, filmmaking and exploring different cultures. Sur has curated and led several collaborative projects between universities across the world. She currently leads the Hashtag Bollywood inter-term at the University of Denver.
Sur 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 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 non-fiction 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. Before coming to the US, Sur completed her Master’s degree in American and Commonwealth Literature from India.
Sur lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and her son.
