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Geeta Gandbhir

Geeta Gandbhir

Director · Born September 18, 1970 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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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.

Directed 24

2010s

  1. 2019

    Hungry to Learn

    Director

  2. Why We Hate

    Director

  3. Women, War & Peace II

    Co-Director

  4. 2018

    Rapture

    Director

  5. 2017

    Armed with Faith

    Director

  6. I Am Evidence

    Director

    80

  7. Love the Sinner

    Director

  8. 2016

    Prison Dogs

    Director

  9. 2015

    A Conversation With Police on Race

    Director

  10. A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race

    Director

  11. A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    Director

  12. 2014

    We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss

    Director

  13. Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

    Director

Edited 34

2010s

  1. 2018

    The Feeling of Being Watched

    Consulting Editor

  2. 2017

    Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge

    Editor

  3. Daughters of Destiny

    Editor

    81

  4. Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS

    Supervising Editor

  5. I Am Evidence

    Supervising Editor

    80
  6. 2016

    Risky Drinking

    Editorial Manager, Supervising Editor

    67

  7. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

    Consulting Editor

    82

  8. O.J.: Made in America

    Consulting Editor

    90

  9. O.J.: Made in America

    Consulting Editor

  10. 2014

    Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

    Editor

  11. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

    Supervising Film Editor

    80
  12. 2013

    American Promise

    Additional Editor

  13. Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

    Supervising Editor

    76

  14. Gasland Part II

    Additional Editor

    75

  15. Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

    Editor, Supervising Editor

  16. 2012

    God Is the Bigger Elvis

    Editor

    69

  17. My Neighbourhood

    Editor

  18. 2011

    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    Editor

  19. 2010

    Budrus

    Editor

  20. If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

    Editor

    73

  21. Music by Prudence

    Editor

2000s

  1. 2009

    By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

    Editor

  2. 2008

    All of Us

    Editor

  3. 2006

    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    Editor

    85

  4. African American Lives

    Editor

  5. 2005

    Miracle's Boys

    Editor

  6. 2001

    Take It From Me

    Editor

  7. 2000

    Bamboozled

    First Assistant Editor

    61

Produced 26

2020s

  1. 2026

    Water Cooler

    Executive Producer

  2. #WhileBlack

    Executive Producer

  3. 2025

    Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within

    Producer

  4. The Perfect Neighbor

    Producer

    79

  5. Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

    Executive Producer

    69

  6. The Gas Station Attendant

    Executive Producer

  7. Exodus

    Executive Producer

  8. Harlem Ice

    Executive Producer

  9. 2024

    New Wave

    Executive Producer

  10. Black Table

    Executive Producer

  11. Family Tree

    Executive Producer

  12. 2023

    Born in Synanon

    Executive Producer

  13. Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

    Executive Producer

  14. 2022

    A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

    Executive Producer

  15. 2021

    Black and Missing

    Executive Producer

  16. 2020

    Asian Americans

    Producer

2010s

  1. 2018

    The Sentence

    Co-Producer

    74
  2. 2017

    Armed with Faith

    Producer

  3. The Talk: Race in America

    Producer

  4. 2015

    A Conversation With Police on Race

    Producer

  5. A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race

    Producer

  6. A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    Producer

  7. 2013

    Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

    Producer

    76
  8. 2010

    Pushing the Elephant

    Producer

2000s

  1. 2009

    By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

    Producer

Sound 2

Art department 1

1990s

  1. 1995

    Joy Street

    Painter

Created 1

Appearances1