Geeta Gandbhir

Directing

Geeta Gandbhir

Born

1970-09-18 (56)

Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Known for

Directing

Credits

38 titles

Geeta Gandbhir (born September 18, 1970; Boston) is an American documentary filmmaker known for her work as a director, producer, and editor. She has won multiple awards including Emmy Awards and Peabody Awards. Gandbhir grew in the Boston area. Her father Sharad immigrated from India to the US in the 1960s to study chemical engineering and her mother Lalita joined him, with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Her sister Una S. Gandbhir is a superior court judge for the Third Judicial District serving Anchorage, Alaska. Her brother Ashwin Gandbhir is also a filmmaker and editor. Gandbhir attended Harvard University to study visual art with a focus on animation. At t…

Known for

The Daily Show poster
6.4

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

The Daily Show

1996

The Perfect Neighbor poster
6.8

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

The Perfect Neighbor

2025

Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within poster
7.1

The story behind the Uganda-based YouTube dance sensations who have endured devastating personal loss from famine and war, and use the power of dance and song to overcome hardship.

Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within

2025

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss poster
7.0

Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan have partnered to produce WE THE ECONOMY 20 Short Films You Can’t Afford to Miss. Each film is helmed by an acclaimed filmmaker, each with their own creative vision. The series aims to drive awareness and establish a better understanding of the U.S. economy. Told through animation, comedy, musical, non-fiction, and scripted films, WE THE ECONOMY seeks to demystify a complicated topic while empowering the public to take control of their own economic futures.

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss

2014

The Devil Is Busy poster
6.8

At an Atlanta abortion clinic besieged by protesters, the director of operations, Tracii, takes necessary risks to safeguard staff and patients.

The Devil Is Busy

2024

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NR

This short film explores the conversations that the parents of African-American boys have had with their sons regarding how they may become targets for police brutality.

The Conversation

2015

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Perfect Neighbor poster
6.8

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

The Perfect Neighbor

2025

The Perfect Neighbor poster
6.8

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

The Perfect Neighbor

2025

Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within poster
7.1

The story behind the Uganda-based YouTube dance sensations who have endured devastating personal loss from famine and war, and use the power of dance and song to overcome hardship.

Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within

2025

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss poster
7.0

Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan have partnered to produce WE THE ECONOMY 20 Short Films You Can’t Afford to Miss. Each film is helmed by an acclaimed filmmaker, each with their own creative vision. The series aims to drive awareness and establish a better understanding of the U.S. economy. Told through animation, comedy, musical, non-fiction, and scripted films, WE THE ECONOMY seeks to demystify a complicated topic while empowering the public to take control of their own economic futures.

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss

2014

The Devil Is Busy poster
6.8

At an Atlanta abortion clinic besieged by protesters, the director of operations, Tracii, takes necessary risks to safeguard staff and patients.

The Devil Is Busy

2024

No artwork available
NR

This short film explores the conversations that the parents of African-American boys have had with their sons regarding how they may become targets for police brutality.

The Conversation

2015

No artwork available
NR

This short film explores the conversations that the parents of African-American boys have had with their sons regarding how they may become targets for police brutality.

The Conversation

2015

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama poster
6.8

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is a documentary film produced by Edward Norton broadcast in November 2009 on HBO, which follows Barack Obama and various members of his campaign team, including David Axelrod, through the two years leading up to the United States presidential election on November 4th, 2008.

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

2009

How We Get Free poster
5.1

In Denver, an intrepid activist runs for office with the aim of eliminating cash bail.

How We Get Free

2023

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers poster
1.0

Follows three women in an all female, predominantly Muslim unit of police officers sent to post-earthquake Haiti as UN Peacekeepers for one year. The mission challenges these women while shattering commonly held stereotypes.

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

2015

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers poster
1.0

Follows three women in an all female, predominantly Muslim unit of police officers sent to post-earthquake Haiti as UN Peacekeepers for one year. The mission challenges these women while shattering commonly held stereotypes.

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

2015

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. poster
5.1

Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career are chronicled in the artist's own words by his contemporaries and, movingly, by his son, the actor Robert De Niro.

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

2014

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NR

There is no age limit for learning.

Freshman. Again.

2025

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There is no age limit for learning.

Freshman. Again.

2025

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power poster
1.5

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

2022

I Am Evidence poster
6.4

The modern criminal justice system is hindered by the fact that countless rape kits remain untested in police evidence storage facilities across the United States. Only eight states currently have laws requiring mandatory testing of rape kits.

I Am Evidence

2017

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley poster
6.7

A feature documentary about Jackie "Moms" Mabley, an African-American stand-up comic and show-biz pioneer who emerged from the Chitlin' Circuit of African-American Vaudeville to become a mainstream star. Once billed as "The Funniest Woman in the World," Mabley pushed the boundaries of comedy by tackling topics such as gender, sex, and racism and performed up until her death in 1975. A true passion project for first-time director Whoopi Goldberg, the documentary shows Mabley's historical significance and profound influence as a performer vastly ahead of her time.

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

2013

Prison Dogs poster
3.5

Prison Dogs is a story of redemption, strength, fear, love, and dedication. In this wonderfully human tale, prison inmates, along with veterans suffering with PTSD, find a path to a second chance at life through their love and care of a puppy.

Prison Dogs

2016

Love the Sinner poster
1.0

A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Love the Sinner

2017

Hungry to Learn poster
1.0

The cost of college is forcing students to make choices that put eating regular meals and their education at odds. Director Geeta Gandbhir and executive producer Soledad O’Brien’s poignant film follows four college students as they navigate food insecurity in their attempt to change their lives for the better. Homelessness, abandonment and mental health issues loom as students are caught between educational institutions’ pursuit of profit during “the best time of their lives.”

Hungry to Learn

2019

Pushing the Elephant poster
NR

Pushing the Elephant tells the extraordinary story of a mother and daughter reunited after a decade separated by civil war. In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost everything to the violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo. She emerged from the suffering advocating peace and reconciliation. But after helping numerous victims to rebuild their lives, there is one person Rose must still teach to forgive - her daughter Nangabire.

Pushing the Elephant

2010

Call Center Blues poster
4.0

A cinematic tale of deportation, migration, displacement and opportunistic capitalism, Call Center Blues follows four characters as they struggle to make sense of their lives in Tijuana. Each with a vastly different story, they are all linked by their displacement and the sole choice of call center work they have in a country that is so unfamiliar and oftentimes frightening, yet other times a ray of hope. Tijuana becomes their home, a place defined by the border but yet defiant towards it, a no man's land where everything and everyone feels transient. These characters paint a picture of love, loss and longing - for home, for an American Dream deferred, and for justice.

Call Center Blues

2020

Armed with Faith poster
1.0

Armed With Faith follows the men of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit (KPK BDU) to the front lines of the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The lawless province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- considered the gateway for terrorists from neighboring Afghanistan -- is the backdrop of our film. The battle for control of this porous border area remains critical to the stability of Pakistan and global security. Should Pakistan, a nuclear power, fall into the hands of terrorists, the entire world is at risk. We witness firsthand the dangerous struggle undertaken by the men of the KPK BDU to protect their country against the Taliban threat in the land they both call home.

Armed with Faith

2017

Armed with Faith poster
1.0

Armed With Faith follows the men of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit (KPK BDU) to the front lines of the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The lawless province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- considered the gateway for terrorists from neighboring Afghanistan -- is the backdrop of our film. The battle for control of this porous border area remains critical to the stability of Pakistan and global security. Should Pakistan, a nuclear power, fall into the hands of terrorists, the entire world is at risk. We witness firsthand the dangerous struggle undertaken by the men of the KPK BDU to protect their country against the Taliban threat in the land they both call home.

Armed with Faith

2017

A Conversation with My Black Son poster
1.0

For generations, parents of black boys across the U.S. have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed œThe Conversation. But when their boys become teenagers, parents must decide how to handle discussions about race. In this short film originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs, parents reveal their struggles with telling their black sons that they may be targets of racial profiling by the police.

A Conversation with My Black Son

2015

A Conversation with My Black Son poster
1.0

For generations, parents of black boys across the U.S. have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed œThe Conversation. But when their boys become teenagers, parents must decide how to handle discussions about race. In this short film originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs, parents reveal their struggles with telling their black sons that they may be targets of racial profiling by the police.

A Conversation with My Black Son

2015

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The lives of these young men are compared and contrasted with who they were five years ago, about who they are now, and how their perspectives on race, justice, and social inequality have changed.

Learning to Breathe

2021

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In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America.

A Conversation About Growing Up Black

2015

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NR

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A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race

2015

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A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race

2015

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This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race.

A Conversation with White People on Race

2015

The Talk: Race in America poster
8.0

Documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.

The Talk: Race in America

2017

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NR

In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities.

A Conversation With Latinos on Race

2015

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1.0

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A Conversation With Police on Race

2015

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1.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Conversation With Police on Race

2015

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NR

In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society.

A Conversation with Black Women on Race

2015