Mohini Herse is writer and director best known for creating the mystery series Appetite. Appetite was commissioned in 2022 by SBS and Screen Australia as part of the SBS Digital Originals initiative. The show had its world premiere at CANNESERIES as part of the Official Short Form Competition before premiering on SBS on Demand. Appetite also screened in competition at Cinema Jove Film Festival, Serien Camp and Marseille Web Fest, winning awards at all respective festivals. Appetite has been nominated for a Rose D'Or, a C21 International Drama Award and an Australian Academy Award. 

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Most recently, Mohini was the lead director for Four Years Later, an 8 X 30min drama for SBS Australia and ITV. Set between India and Australia, the international co-production was nominated for Best Mini Series at the Australian Academy Awards and her work received recognition at the Asia Academy Awards as the National Winner for Directing. In 2024 Mohini was awarded the Screen Australia Enterprise Fund where she completed a placement with the award winning London based production company, Merman. In the same year she was also listed by Inside Film as Rising Talent to watch in the field of directing. ​

In addition to her writing and directing work, in 2021, Mohini had the privilege of working as Taika Waititi's Assistant on Thor: Love and Thunder and is also known for directing Australia’s first ever Instagram series The Out There (2016). Season 2 of The Out There was commissioned and released by Adolescent Content, changing the way the industry viewed short form storytelling. 

She was previously a resident of the Museum of Applied Arts and Science Film Collective Residency program and has also been a recipient of the AFTRS and AiF Charlie's Hot Desk program (2021) and UNSW’s SAM Alumni Residency (2020). Mohini is especially interested in social impact filmmaking, having completed a residency with Wilurara Creative and the Ngaanyatjarra shire in 2018.

Mohini holds a Bachelor of Media and Production (minor in Film Studies) from UNSW as well as a Graduate Certificate in Directing from AFTRS. She owes a lot of her film smarts (and her hot glue burns) to her early days working in music videos and content for the film collective Oh Yeah Wow.

Mohini is currently based in London.