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Raul Sharma
SCREENWRITER
Graduated from NYFA LA Campus in 2018
Raul Sharma is a Kiwi-Indian screenwriter with extensive development and production experience and is currently a staff writer and storyliner for Shortland Street, New Zealand’s longest-running medical drama, based in Auckland.
He interned and worked as a script reader for Arad Productions (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Emmett/Furla Oasis Films (Silence, Power ) and he as Script Coordinator for Power Rangers Season 30 and the Netflix special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.
His sci-fi feature spec Turnstile won a New Zealand Writers Guild Seed Grant (2020), reached quarterfinals in the 2022 Academy Nicholl Fellowships, and semifinalist status in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He was named one of Austin Film Festival & MovieMaker Magazine’s “25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2023.
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