Leela Varghese
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Leela Varghese earns a living as an Australian director who works where the film is put together rather than where it is watched. 'Lesbian Space Princess' is the one title here with a genuinely wide audience. The beginning of the record is the part hardest to track down. Work has kept arriving across 7 years.
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Leela Varghese earns a living as an Australian director who works where the film is put together rather than where it is watched. 'Lesbian Space Princess' is the one title here with a genuinely wide audience. The beginning of the record is the part hardest to track down. Work has kept arriving across 7 years.
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What are the most famous roles of Leela Varghese?
Leela Varghese is best known for directing Lesbian Space Princess, Science+, I'm the Most Racist Person I Know.
How many movies has Leela Varghese directed?
Over a 7-year career (since 2019), Leela Varghese has directed or written 4 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Leela Varghese's first movie?
The career of Leela Varghese began with Crush (2019).
What is Leela Varghese's most recent movie or series?
Leela Varghese's most recent release is Lesbian Space Princess, which premiered on September 11, 2025.
Leela Varghese
· Bundaberg Central, Australia
Leela Varghese (born 1992 in Bundaberg) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and actress.
From 2008 to 2018, Leela Varghese worked as a presenter for the Australian children's series *Totally Wild*; beginning in 2011, she directed and wrote several short films. She garnered particular attention with the short film *Crush*, which won the award for Best Screenplay at Tropfest in 2019. Subsequently, together with Emma Hough Hobbs, she developed the feature film *Lesbian Space Princess*, which screened in the Panorama section at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the Teddy Award for Best LGBTQIA+ Feature Film. Varghese is openly lesbian and frequently explores queer perspectives and diversity in her work.