Geeta Gandbhir

Geeta Gandbhir

Biography

Geeta Gandbhir has over nineteen years of varied experience in the fields of film, television and animation. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, and has won two, and her films have won one Academy Award and three Peabody Awards. Recently, her film "God is the Bigger Elvis" with director Rebecca Cammisa was nominated for the 2012 Oscars. Geeta started out working as an animator for the legendary filmmaker Suzan Pitt doing pieces for MTV's groundbreaking Liquid Television series, as well as Pitt's film "Joy Street" which was featured in the New York Film Festival. Wanting to branch out and broaden her skills, she then transitioned into film editing, working with distinguished, award-winning directors and producers such as Spike Lee, Robert Altman and Sam Pollard. In television, she has worked for PBS, MTV, Discovery, Court TV, Oxygen Media, HBO and many others. Recent works include the PBS series "African American Lives with Henry Lewis Gates" and the four-hour HBO documentary series "When the Levees Broke" for filmmaker Spike Lee, for which she won an Emmy Award for Best Editing. Most recent works include: "What's Going On: The Life Of Marvin Gaye" for PBS American Masters and Amy Rice and Alicia Sam's feature documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama", executive produced by Edward Norton and released by HBO, for which she won her second Emmy Award, and "Music By Prudence", a documentary produced by HBO and Director Roger Ross Williams, which won the 2010 Oscar for Best Short Documentary. She recently completed a feature-length documentary entitled Budrus by Just Vision Films, the directors and producers of the award-winning film Control Room

Production

Joy Street

1995

As Painter

Prison Dogs

2016

As Director

I Am Evidence

2017

As Director

Armed with Faith

2017

As Director

Love the Sinner

2017

As Director

Hungry to Learn

2019

As Director

Call Center Blues

2020

As Director

And She Could Be Next

2020

As Field Director

How We Get Free

2023

As Director

Risky Drinking

2016

As Editorial Manager

Summer of Sam

1999

As Assistant Editor

Kisses On a Train

1993

As Assistant Editor

Budrus

2010

As Editor

My Neighbourhood

2012

As Supervising Editor

Armed with Faith

2017

As Producer

The Sentence

2018

As Co-Producer

Learning to Breathe

2021

As Producer

Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

2023

As Executive Producer

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