Geeta Gandbhir

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

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Assistant Editor:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam

Co-Producer:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2018  The Sentence

Director:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Editor:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Editorial Manager:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Executive Producer:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2023  Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2024  New Wave
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Field Director:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  And She Could Be Next
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2023  Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2024  New Wave
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Painter:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1995  Joy Street
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  And She Could Be Next
2020  Call Center Blues
2022  A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2023  Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2024  New Wave
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Producer:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1995  Joy Street
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  And She Could Be Next
2020  Call Center Blues
2021  Learning to Breathe
2022  A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2023  Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2024  New Wave
2024  The Devil Is Busy

Supervising Editor:
1993  Kisses On a Train
1995  Joy Street
1999  Summer of Sam
2009  By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2010  Budrus
2011  The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2012  God Is the Bigger Elvis
2012  My Neighbourhood
2014  Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
2015  A Conversation With Police on Race
2015  A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
2016  Prison Dogs
2016  Risky Drinking
2017  Armed with Faith
2017  I Am Evidence
2017  Love the Sinner
2018  A Conversation with My Black Son
2018  The Sentence
2019  Hungry to Learn
2020  And She Could Be Next
2020  Call Center Blues
2021  Learning to Breathe
2022  A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
2022  Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2023  How We Get Free
2023  Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2024  New Wave
2024  The Devil Is Busy

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