Mesh Flinders

Who is Mesh Flinders?

Ramesh "Mesh" Flinders is a screenwriter who, along with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, is best known for creating the groundbreaking lonelygirl15 video series which received international attention during the summer months of 2006.

Flinders grew up in a spiritual community outside of San Francisco, and attended St. Vincent's high school in Petaluma, CA. He graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles., While there Flinders wrote about an alter-ego, the home schooled girl who would eventually become Bree, and told fireside tales about her as a camp counselor in Maine.

Flinder's first film was called "In the Time of My Undoing," which won the 2003 Occidental College student film award.

Flinders' short film "Pond" is about a high school age girl who gets left behind on a museum field trip and meets the ghost of the museum's famous architect. Together they solve the mystery of his confinement, freeing the architect from his museum purgatory, and helping Ana find something to care about. The Pond screenplay won the Panavision Young Writer's award in 2004. "Pond" was premiered at the 2006 New York Short Film Festival, and was an official selection in many other film festivals including the 2007 Sacramento Film Festival and 2006 Spokane International Film Festival.