Molly Karna is a queer, Indian-American writer and director based in Los Angeles who recently completed her M.F.A. in Film and Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Molly's time at SCA led to her writing and directing multiple films, including her thesis Truckstop and short film Big and Small, both hybrid fiction-nonfiction short films, and Demi, a short comedy film about a demisexual sex doll in COVID-19 lockdown, which helped her earn a USC Lambda Scholarship. Outside of USC, Molly directed the short film The Rushing of the Sea, an experimental narrative short film.
Prior to USC, Molly worked in both the English and Hindi film industries. In 2018, she wrote and directed Arrangement, a short narrative film which premiered at the 2018 New York Indian Film Festival and won Best Debut Short Film Award at the Cincinnati Indian Film Festival. Aside from directing, Molly served as a staff writer for the TV Asia news-comedy show Samachari News and helped produce projects including Surina and Mel and the Hindi film Chef.
Prior to her film career, Molly studied gentrification and maternal health in Mumbai as a Fulbright Scholar, and graduated with a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University.
