Prashant Thakker

Born in Mumbai, Prashant is a Miami-based writer whose works have won multiple awards. In 2018, his comedy screenplay, Nut-ivity, currently in production, was one of the two winners at the American Film Market for "Best Screenplay Pitch" and the winner for "Best Screenplay Pitch" in 2017 at the Miami Media and Film Market. His screenplay, Siblings, co-written with Karishma Kohli, was the winner at the 2018 Miami Media and Film Market for "Best Screenplay Pitch".

Prashant is one of the screenwriters who collaborated in the full-length feature film Horror Time, produced by James Franco. In 2010, he co-produced the award-winning film I Am, starring Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Nandita Das and Rahul Bose.

Most recently, Prashant script-supervised the Alt Balaji web series, Mentalhood, starring Karisma Kapoor, Sanjay Suri, Tilotama Shome, Sandhya Mridul, Shruti Seth, Shilpa Shukla and Dino Morea.

Prashant studied creative writing at the University of Miami and screenwriting at Studio4 in Los Angeles and New York. He is a proud feminist, dog-lover, and a citizen of the world.