Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans documentary, television, and narrative film. She began her career in narrative filmmaking under the mentorship of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard before transitioning into documentary storytelling.

Gandbhir recently made history as the first woman to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year, for her feature documentary The Perfect Neighbor and her documentary short The Devil Is Busy. Her work has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Directors Guild of America Award, and has received multiple Emmy Awards and nominations as well as an NAACP Award.

Her directing credits include The Perfect Neighbor, which won the 2025 Sundance U.S. Documentary Directing Award; the Netflix series Katrina: Come Hell and High Water; the HBO documentary short The Devil Is Busy; and the Emmy-winning documentary series Black and Missing for HBO.

In addition to directing, Gandbhir is an accomplished editor whose films have collectively won two Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and an Academy Award.

Films

Unpacking Grief

Amelia Hanibelsz, Cheryl Furjanic, Geeta Gandbhir

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