About Me.
Nathan Sritharan is a husband and a father who was born and raised in London. Coming from a mixed race Sri Lankan/British background, Nathan grew up in a very diverse world. He was exposed to a variety of cultures and a wide array of cinema and TV, quite often viewing content he shouldn’t have been, however, he attributes his early introduction to media to his vivid imagination and creative storytelling.
Nathan always had a fascination with compelling storytelling and a particular interest in how stories were put together, specifically how characters and subplots were interwoven within a story. Nathan would often write short stories and poems as a child and later in life he wrote scripts throughout his TV and Film University course. He currently works as a freelance script writer for an independent film company, a trainee Relationship Counsellor and for the NHS. Nathan spent most of his life doing what he felt needed to be done of him, going to college, graduating from University and finding a career he would be in until retirement. When he wanted to break away from this pattern he wasn’t given much in the way of support and felt restricted by an unhelpful system, a system he saw restrict so many other people around him. It wasn’t until Nathan was forced out of the “traditional” patterns of life did he get an opportunity to start looking at his own path, which unfortunately still came with constraints out of his control, including being evicted and forced into temporary housing with his family. Nathan’s writing brings together his love of storytelling and the atrocious behaviour and treatment he has seen impact hard working people every day. AWARDS / RECOGNITION
Best Comedy/Drama Short Film 2010 - University of Portsmouth |