Geeta Gandbhir
- Directing
- September 18, 1970 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography
Geeta Gandbhir (born September 18, 1970; Boston) is an American documentary filmmaker known for her work as a director, producer, and editor. She has won multiple awards including Emmy Awards and Peabody Awards. Gandbhir grew in the Boston area. Her father Sharad immigrated from India to the US in the 1960s to study chemical engineering and her mother Lalita joined him, with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Her sister Una S. Gandbhir is a superior court judge for the Third Judicial District serving Anchorage, Alaska. Her brother Ashwin Gandbhir is also a filmmaker and editor. Gandbhir attended Harvard University to study visual art with a focus on animation. At the school, she was introduced to Spike Lee, who was teaching there, and an editor for Lee, Sam Pollard.
Known for
Filmography
- #WhileBlack · Executive producer
- Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within · Producer
- The Perfect Neighbor · Director, Producer
- Katrina: Come Hell and High Water · Director, Executive producer
- Freshman. Again. · Writer, Producer
- The Gas Station Attendant · Executive producer
- Exodus · Executive producer
- Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015 · Director
- Harlem Ice · Executive producer
- The Devil Is Busy · Director
- New Wave · Executive producer
- Black Table · Executive producer
- Family Tree · Executive producer
- Born in Synanon · Director, Executive producer
- Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story · Executive producer
- How We Get Free · Director
- Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power · Director
- A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting · Executive producer
- Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities · Executive producer
- Black and Missing · Director, Executive producer
- I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me · Consulting Producer
- Through Our Eyes · Director
- Learning to Breathe · Producer
- Asian Americans · Producer
- Call Center Blues · Director
- Hungry to Learn · Director
- Why We Hate · Director
- Women, War & Peace II · Co-Director
- The Feeling of Being Watched · Consulting Editor
- Rapture · Director
- The Sentence · Co-producer
- Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · Editing
- Armed with Faith · Director, Producer
- Daughters of Destiny · Editing
- Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS · Supervising Editor
- I Am Evidence · Director, Supervising Editor
- Love the Sinner · Director
- The Talk: Race in America · Producer
- Risky Drinking · Editorial Manager, Supervising Editor
- Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds · Consulting Editor
- O.J.: Made in America · Consulting Editor
- O.J.: Made in America · Consulting Editor
- Prison Dogs · Director
- A Conversation with Black Women on Race · Producer
- A Conversation With Police on Race · Director, Producer
- A Conversation with My Black Son · Director, Producer
- A Conversation With Latinos on Race · Producer
- A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race · Director, Producer
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers · Director, Producer
- A Conversation with White People on Race · Producer
- The Conversation · Self, Director
- A Conversation About Growing Up Black · Producer
- We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss · Director
- Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. · Director, Editing
- Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown · Supervising Film Editor
- American Promise · Additional Editor
- Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley · Producer, Supervising Editor
- Gasland Part II · Additional Editor
- Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington · Editing, Supervising Editor
- See You Soon Again · Story Consultant
- God Is the Bigger Elvis · Editing
- My Neighbourhood · Editing
- The Education of Dee Dee Ricks · Editing
- The Carrier · Editing
- Budrus · Editing
- If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise · Editing
- Pushing the Elephant · Producer
- Music by Prudence · Editing
- By the People: The Election of Barack Obama · Editing, Producer
- All of Us · Editing
- Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special · Editing
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts · Editing
- African American Lives · Editing
- Miracle's Boys · Editing
- Ride with Funkmaster Flex · Editing
- Take It From Me · Editing
- Bamboozled · First Assistant Editor
- Summer of Sam · Assistant Editor
- The Daily Show · Self
- Girl 6 · First Assistant Editor