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Mehul Desai

UK based Science Fiction screenwriter. Winner of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Grand Prize) and Finalist for Final Draft Big Break 2022.

A graduate in Film Theory & Production, Mehul has written and directed several short films funded by the UK Film Council before focusing primarily on feature film screenwriting.

In 2009, Mehul won the Grand Prize at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards for his science fiction mystery thriller Progeny. He has since garnered over 40 festival and contest accolades (including Final Draft Big Break, BlueCat, ScreenCraft and American Zoetrope).

Between 2020-22, Mehul was hired by Voyage Media (Los Angeles) to adapt an original science fiction story treatment into a feature film screenplay, collaborating with Producer and Head of Originals Robert Mitas (Beyond The Reach, We Have Always Lived in The Castle, Flatliners 2017, Ratched).

Specializing in grounded science fiction thrillers, Mehul's work often focuses on wealth/class inequality, environmental issues and diverse sympathetic characters.
 

Awards

Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25% for
ASCENSION
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25% for
CRADLE
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 1% for
SANCTUARY
Austin Film Festival - Second-Rounder for
SANCTUARY
Stage 32 Fantasy & Sci-Fi - Quarter Finalist for
SANCTUARY
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 1% for
ANDIES
Austin Film Festival - Second-Rounder for
ANDIES
Stage 32 Action/Thriller - Quarter Finalist for
ANDIES
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25% for
PROGENY

Scripts By Mehul

ASCENSION
When mysterious black pyramids suddenly appear in deserts around the world, a leukemia patient from Michigan finds herself thrust into the public eye as the world around her is forever changed.
TV Pilot Sci-Fi Example of work only 60pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25%
1 reader loves this script
BEASTS
A battle hardened soldier and potentially the last woman on Earth fights for survival in a world overrun by werewolves.
Feature Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller For sale 90pp
PROGENY
Intercepting a probe sent by a forgotten human colony, Commander John Teller and the crew of the starship Arcas voyage to make first contact, only to find half the crew intent on exploitation.
Feature Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller For sale 118pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25%
ANDIES
Stranded on an enormous deep space cargo freighter with unlimited food and resources and over two hundred pleasure androids subservient to your every wish. Heaven or Hell? Wenton is about to find out.
Feature Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller For sale 98pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 1%
SANCTUARY
A former soldier awakens on a tranquil 1800s settlement sheltering the last survivors from Earth, only to discover that every woman must bear children or face exile. Including herself.
Feature Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Example of work only 109pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 1%
CRADLE
When a malfunction during a colonization mission results in every passenger reverted to a primitive state, a grieving survivor attempts to recreate his lost lover through artificial selection and 20 year stasis intervals.
Feature Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller For sale 125pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25%
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