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Educated in Africa, India and Britain, Miriam has 35 years of experience in the media. After finishing film school at the University of London’s Goldsmith’s College, she started her career with the BBC and went on to become a broadcast journalist, documentary/drama producer with them. She spent the next 12 years working in Britain for several international television broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, ITV, The History Channel, Channel 5, WGBH, making investigative, political and history documentaries and drama/docs.She moved to India to fulfill a long-held ambition of working on feature films and joined Excel Entertainment in Mumbai. Over the next few years, first as Executive Producer and then as the CEO of the company, she demonstrated an ability to build, nurture and lead large multi-disciplinary teams to deliver some of the highest production values seen in Hindi cinema, with films like Don, Don 2, Rock On, Luck By Chance, Kartik Calling Kartik, Game, Talaash etc. Having shepherded several films from script to screen, Miriam is at home both with large-budget, star driven films as she is with smaller budget, independent films and with episodic series for TV or OTT. She now acts as a Consulting Producer to a few production companies across their output, like Endemol Shine, Cinestaan India, Guru Films, Little Films etcMiriam acts as a Consultant to the NFDC’s Film Bazaar, mentoring their Screen Writers’ & Producers’ Labs from 2013 – 2018 and also as a selector for their Co-production market. She also regularly works as a selection committee member for the Hubert Bals Script Development Fund.Watching the growing demand for professional producers in a more formalized Hindi film industry and not being able to find enough of them to work with, Miriam was instrumental in making a case for and setting up India’s first ever Film Producing course at SRFTI and designed the syllabus and curriculum for it. The course is now 13 years old and has gone on to serve as a template for other film schools that have begun teaching Producing since then. She is a regular lecturer at schools like, SRFTI, MIT Pune, Annapurna, MET, KRNNVISA.Miriam is a member of the Women in Cinema Collective in Kerala (WCC), actively involved in addressing the daily structural inequities that affect women in film and working on policy frameworks to help change them.She is also a published author.