Miriam Joseph
Biography
Educated in Africa, India, and Britain, Miriam has close to 30 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 and 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, and 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 for a few production companies across their output, like Endemol Shine, Cinestaan India, Guru Films, Little Films, etc.
Miriam was a Consultant to the National Film Development Corporation & Film Bazaar, acting as a mentor to their Screen Writers' and Producers' Labs from 2013 - 2018 and vetting and recommending projects for their annual International Co-Production Market.
She was also a member of the Govt's Media and Entertainment Skills Council in 2013, advising them on how to set up National Occupational Standards in the sector.
Miriam is a regular lecturer at a number of film schools incl, including SRFTI, MIT Pune, Annapurna, MET, and KRNNVISA. She designed the syllabus and curriculum and was instrumental in setting up India's first-ever Producing course at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute.
A course that has gone on to serve as a template for other film schools that have set up Producing Courses since then.
Miriam is also a published author.
