Producer Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Message Pictures. Her recent credits include the series “Katrina: Come Hell and High Water” which debuted at #1 on Netflix, “The Perfect Neighbor” which premiered at Sundance in 2025, won the Directing Award for the US Documentary Competition, 5 Critics’ Choice Awards, and was bought by Netflix. She directed the shorts “The Devil is Busy” for HBO, and “Reclaimed” for Sesame Workshop. She also directed the Oscar Shortlisted film “How We Get Free” for HBO, the series “Born in Synanon” for Paramount, the series “Eyes on the Prize” for HBO, and the feature doc “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” which was nominated for the 2022 Critics Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and won a 2023 Emmy Award. Additionally, she directed and show-ran the series “Black and Missing” for HBO which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series. She directed the film “Apart,” with Rudy Valdez, for HBOMax, and won a 2022 Emmy Award.

Films

Unpacking Grief

Amelia Hanibelsz, Cheryl Furjanic, Geeta Gandbhir

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