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Geeta Gandbhir

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Female

Birthday
September 18, 1970 (55 years old)

Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Geeta Gandbhir

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

Production

2026#WhileBlack...Executive Producer
2025Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within...Producer
2025The Perfect Neighbor...Producer
2025Katrina: Come Hell and High Water...Executive Producer
2025Freshman. Again....Producer
2025The Gas Station Attendant...Executive Producer
2025Exodus...Executive Producer
2025Harlem Ice...Executive Producer
2024New Wave...Executive Producer
2024Black Table...Executive Producer
2024Family Tree...Executive Producer
2023Born in Synanon...Executive Producer
2023Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story...Executive Producer
2022A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting...Executive Producer
2022Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities...Executive Producer
2021Black and Missing...Executive Producer
2021I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me...Consulting Producer
2021Learning to Breathe...Producer
2020Asian Americans...Producer
2018The Sentence...Co-Producer
2017Armed with Faith...Producer
2017The Talk: Race in America...Producer
2015A Conversation with Black Women on Race...Producer
2015A Conversation With Police on Race...Producer
2015A Conversation with My Black Son...Producer
2015A Conversation With Latinos on Race...Producer
2015A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race...Producer
2015A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers...Producer
2015A Conversation with White People on Race...Producer
2015The Conversation...Producer
2015A Conversation About Growing Up Black...Producer
2013Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley...Producer
2010Pushing the Elephant...Producer
2009By the People: The Election of Barack Obama...Producer
The Pen...Executive Producer

Directing

2025The Perfect Neighbor...Director
2025Katrina: Come Hell and High Water...Director
2025Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015...Director
2024The Devil Is Busy...Director
2023Born in Synanon...Director
2023How We Get Free...Director
2022Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power...Director
2021Black and Missing...Director
2021Through Our Eyes...Director
2020And She Could Be Next...Field Director
2020Call Center Blues...Director
2019Hungry to Learn...Director
2019Why We Hate...Director
2019Women, War & Peace II...Co-Director
2018Rapture...Director
2017Armed with Faith...Director
2017I Am Evidence...Director
2017Love the Sinner...Director
2016Prison Dogs...Director
2015A Conversation With Police on Race...Director
2015A Conversation with My Black Son...Director
2015A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race...Director
2015A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers...Director
2015The Conversation...Director
2014We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss...Director
2014Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr....Director
1988POV...Field Director

Writing

2025Freshman. Again....Writer
2015The Conversation...Story
2012See You Soon Again...Story Consultant

Creator

2021Black and Missing...Creator

Editing

2018The Feeling of Being Watched...Consulting Editor
2017Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge...Editor
2017Daughters of Destiny...Editor
2017Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS...Supervising Editor
2017I Am Evidence...Supervising Editor
2017Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...Consulting Editor
2016Risky Drinking...Editorial Manager
2016Risky Drinking...Supervising Editor
2016O.J.: Made in America...Consulting Editor
2016O.J.: Made in America...Consulting Editor
2014Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr....Editor
2014Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown...Supervising Film Editor
2013American Promise...Additional Editor
2013Gasland Part II...Additional Editor
2013Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley...Supervising Editor
2013Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington...Editor
2013Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington...Supervising Editor
2012God Is the Bigger Elvis...Editor
2012My Neighbourhood...Editor
2011The Education of Dee Dee Ricks...Editor
2011The Carrier...Editor
2010Budrus...Editor
2010If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise...Editor
2010Music by Prudence...Editor
2009By the People: The Election of Barack Obama...Editor
2008All of Us...Editor
2007Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special...Editor
2006When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts...Editor
2006African American Lives...Editor
2005Miracle's Boys...Editor
2003Ride with Funkmaster Flex...Editor
2001Take It From Me...Editor
2000Bamboozled...First Assistant Editor
1999Summer of Sam...Assistant Editor
1996Girl 6...First Assistant Editor
1995Clockers...Assistant Editor
1994Surviving the Game...Assistant Editor
1993Kisses on a Train...Assistant Editor
1988POV...Additional Editor
1988POV...Consulting Editor
1986American Masters...Supervising Editor

Art

1995Joy Street...Painter

Sound

1993Short Cuts...Apprentice Sound Editor
1992Malcolm X...Apprentice Sound Editor

Acting

2015The Conversationas Self
1996The Daily Showas Self - Guest