Samiksha Thakur is an NJ-based, Indian-American freelance script supervisor and writer-director whose work explores major moral dilemmas through the complexities of adolescence, womanhood, and mental health as they function within social institutions. She is a 2026 YoungArts x Sundance Emerging Filmmaker Laureate, YoungArts award-winner in film, and recipient of the Warner Bros, Ghetto Film School, AT&T, and NFFTY Finishing Fund film grants.

Founder of the female-forward production company Pretty Porcelain Pictures, Samiksha has successfully ran various crowdfunding campaigns and led her short films to a sundry of awards and Academy-Award qualifying film festivals. While providing video services for local women-owned businesses, through PPP, Samiksha is in post-production for a surrealist short film about a suspended subway bystander and is touring the festival circuit with her film about family estrangement amidst a young girl's formative years. When she's not freelancing, you can catch her doing colorful winged eyeliners, trying new coffee shops, or eating sushi with friends.

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Samiksha Thakur is an NJ-based, Indian-American freelance script supervisor and writer-director whose work explores major moral dilemmas through the complexities of adolescence, womanhood, and mental health as they function within social institutions. She is a 2026 YoungArts x Sundance Emerging Filmmaker Laureate, YoungArts award-winner in film, and recipient of the Warner Bros, Ghetto Film School, AT&T, and NFFTY Finishing Fund film grants.
Founder of the female-forward production company Pretty Porcelain Pictures, Samiksha has successfully ran various crowdfunding campaigns and led her short films to a sundry of awards and Academy-Award qualifying film festivals.

While providing video services for local women-owned businesses, through PPP, Samiksha is in post-production for a surrealist short film about a suspended subway bystander and is touring the festival circuit with her film about family estrangement amidst a young girl's formative years. When she's not freelancing, you can catch her doing colorful winged eyeliners, trying new coffee shops, or eating sushi with friends.