Push It!
Push It!
Television (One-hour)
· Drama · 58 pages
“Push It!” is the story of a trailblazing women’s rights activist, Katharine McCormick, who fights an uphill battle with heavy personal costs to finance and orchestrate the creation of the revolutionary birth control pill. Inspired by real events.
Written by
Mirella Christou
6 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Semifinalist,
Austin Film Festival 2022
Quarterfinalist,
The Writers Lab International 2024
Semifinalist,
ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2022
1 Writer
West Hollywood, California
Mirella is a multiple-award-winning writer and filmmaker. She was a fellow at Film Independent's Episodic Lab, sponsored by Netflix, and was awarded the Sloan prize 4 times. She was selected for the Athena Writers Lab & North Fork TV Festival. She has an MFA from NYU in Dramatic Writing. Her career began as a journalist where she honed her sense of...
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Selected for the Athena Film Festival Writer Lab, 2022 Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist 2022 Selected for the North Fork TV Festival Pitch Forum supported by the Sloan Foundation, 2021