Neha Srivastava

Neha Srivastava has 25 years of experience in creative writing. She is the winner of 26 international awards/selections for screenwriting. After working for 13 years in the advertising industry she chose to be a full-time mom, and gave up her job but could not give up writing, therefore she kept working as a freelance writer. Currently, (as of 2022) she is juggling the roles of a creative writer, full-time Mom and teacher of underprivileged children. She has won the platinum award for best script at the WorldFest Houston film festival, and a Remi award, 2022. Platinum at the Independent shorts awards, July 2021 for her story 'Fairy Dress'. Best Short Script at The Toronto Independent festival, Outstanding script at the World Carnival Festival, Singapore, Honourable mention at the WIKI awards, best film at twilight Tokyo film awards, Japan, and selected at the Santa Barbara Film awards. Also awarded the Best short film at the Silver mask film festival in Los Angeles, awarded the best short film at the Dubai Independent film festival. It is part of the prestigious'Daffodil list' at the International film festival of Wales. Her Script Fairy Dress is also a finalist at the Manhattan film festival and a quarter-finalist at the Big Apple Film festival. Her script, Daayen. The Hunted was recently awarded the best women's film at the Royal Motion pictures and at the prestigious Tagore film festival. Daayen was also a finalist at Multi Dimension Independent film festival. It was also selected for the LA independent women's awards. Her screenplay, 'Game' was selected at the Chicago Screenplay Awards, 4th dimension awards, it was a semi-finalist at the Vienna film festival., Syd Field academy awards and Sydney international awards. It was a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta awards. It is under production at present. Her screenplay 'A Sip From Your Coffee' was selected at the Berlin Film festival. It is a semi finalist at the Paris International Festival for Women. It has also been awarded the best feature -Jury at the 12th Dada Saheb Phalke award, 2022. Her short script, 'Second Born' was selected at the Amsterdam film festival. She was awarded the diploma certificate from the prestigious Spanish Museo de Palabra award for her micro-fiction story - 'The Game'. Her story, 'Two Toys' has been published in the Anthology - 100 Voices - volume 2'. Recently her micro-fiction, 'Fairy dress' appeared in Centifictionist, US, Also published is her poignant poem, 'Moksha', in Spain. Another story 'Sabina', in the Smartest Kid on the Bronx-Anthology. She has written for over 20 brands, like Paras, DLF builders, Vimal, British gas, Harvest Gold bread, Daewoo Motors, IIS Infotech, Inox theater, and over 10 websites. A proud MGDian, she has English Honours from Rajasthan University in 1994, along with German, achieved her MBA from IIRM, Jaipur, and studied Screenwriting with Carl Schoenfeld, in Oxford. Of all the designations she has been addressed by, her favorite remains -'Mom'.