Curate Signs Shuchi Talati, Filmmaker Behind Gotham And Independent Spirit Award-Nominated ‘Girls Will Be Girls’

EXCLUSIVE: Shuchi Talati, the filmmaker behind the award-winning coming-of-age drama Girls Will Be Girls, has signed with Curate for management.

Marking Talati’s debut feature, Girls Will Be Girls revolves around Mira (Panigrahi), a 16-year-old coming of age in the Himalayan foothills whose rebellious awakening is intertwined with her mother’s (Kani Kusruti) unfulfilled coming-of-age experiences.

The film world premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in World Cinema Dramatic and the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting, with the latter prize going to Panigrahi. Talati was the writer, director and producer of the project — a 2024 Gotham nominee, which is up for the John Cassavetes Award and Best Supporting Performance for Kusruti at the 40th Independent Spirit Awards.

Previously, Talati served as Story Producer for the Emmy-nominated Being Mary Tyler Moore, as well as Netflix’s vérité series We Are: The Brooklyn Saints and Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for HBO, earning a GLAAD Award nomination for her work on the latter. A Berlinale Talents alum and graduate of the American Film Institute, she also made the short film A Period Piece, which was a selection of SXSW.

Founded in 2021 by film and TV lit manager Britton Rizzio, Curate’s focus is on creators in film, television and books. Other notable clients include Jac Schaeffer (Agatha: Coven of Chaos), Katie O’Brien (The Z-Suite), Sarah Lampert (Ginny & Georgia), Smriti Mundhra (Indian Matchmaking, Muslim Matchmaking), Cody Heller (Jury Duty), Oren Uziel (The Lost City, Spiderman Noir), Emily Carmichael (Jurassic World: Dominion), Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven), Fernanda Eguiarte (La Flor Más Bella), Laura Eason (Three Women), and Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me).