A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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
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
Co-Director:
2019 Women, War & Peace II
Director:
2019 Why We Hate
2019 Women, War & Peace II
2021 Through Our Eyes
2023 Born in Synanon
Editor:
2005 Miracle's Boys
2010 If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2017 Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
2019 Why We Hate
2019 Women, War & Peace II
2021 Through Our Eyes
2023 Born in Synanon
Executive Producer:
2005 Miracle's Boys
2010 If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2017 Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
2019 Why We Hate
2019 Women, War & Peace II
2021 Through Our Eyes
2023 Born in Synanon
Producer:
2005 Miracle's Boys
2010 If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2017 Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
2019 Why We Hate
2019 Women, War & Peace II
2020 Asian Americans
2021 Through Our Eyes
2023 Born in Synanon
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