Geeta Gandbhir

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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Geeta Gandbhir Movies

  • 2022
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    Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

    Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

    2 2022 HD

    Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent...

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  • 2011
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    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    5.5 2011 HD

    The story of one woman's mission to defeat cancer and help others do the same.

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  • 2021
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    Learning to Breathe

    Learning to Breathe

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Kisses On a Train

    Kisses On a Train

    1 1993 HD

    The story of Sukhadi, a twelve-year-old Adivasi girl who makes a daily trip to a sleepy railway station to fetch water. This banal activity is...

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  • 2014
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    Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

    Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

    5.4 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Budrus

    Budrus

    6.5 2010 HD

    Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them...

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  • 2009
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    By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

    By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

    6.8 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

    Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

    8.7 2023 HD

    Tyler Perry is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood...

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  • 2015
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    A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

    A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

    6.8 2022 HD

    On October 27th, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing eleven people as they prayed, in what would become the deadliest...

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  • 2012
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    My Neighbourhood

    My Neighbourhood

    8 2012 HD

    Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his...

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  • 2018
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    A Conversation with My Black Son

    A Conversation with My Black Son

    1 2018 HD

    For generations, parents of black boys across the U.S. have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed œThe Conversation. But when their boys become...

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  • 2016
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    Prison Dogs

    Prison Dogs

    6 2016 HD

    Prison Dogs is a story of redemption, strength, fear, love, and dedication. In this wonderfully human tale, prison inmates, along with veterans...

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  • 2016
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    Risky Drinking

    Risky Drinking

    7.2 2016 HD

    Are you a risky drinker? Nearly 70% of American adults drink alcohol and nearly 1/3 of them engage in problem drinking at some point in their lives....

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  • 2017
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    I Am Evidence

    I Am Evidence

    6.4 2017 HD

    The modern criminal justice system is hindered by the fact that countless rape kits remain untested in police evidence storage facilities across the...

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  • 2015
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    A Conversation With Police on Race

    A Conversation With Police on Race

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2024
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    New Wave

    New Wave

    1 2024 HD

    An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and...

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  • 2023
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    How We Get Free

    How We Get Free

    8.3 2023 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Armed with Faith

    Armed with Faith

    1 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Armed with Faith

    Armed with Faith

    1 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    The Sentence

    The Sentence

    6.344 2018 HD

    Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier....

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  • 2017
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    Love the Sinner

    Love the Sinner

    1 2017 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Hungry to Learn

    Hungry to Learn

    1 2019 HD

    The cost of college is forcing students to make choices that put eating regular meals and their education at odds. Director Geeta Gandbhir and...

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  • 2020
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    Call Center Blues

    Call Center Blues

    7 2020 HD

    A cinematic tale of deportation, migration, displacement and opportunistic capitalism, Call Center Blues follows four characters as they struggle to...

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  • 2020
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    And She Could Be Next

    And She Could Be Next

    1 2020 HD

    The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

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  • 1999
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    Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam

    6.467 1999 HD

    During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

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  • 2012
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    God Is the Bigger Elvis

    God Is the Bigger Elvis

    6.5 2012 HD

    Dolores Hart left a successful Hollywood acting career to become a nun. A true story.

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  • 1995
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    Joy Street

    Joy Street

    6.389 1995 HD

    A nightmare of a woman depressed by the concrete world she lives in, and her journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an...

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  • 1970
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    Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    A chronicle of the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture through the perspective of Rolling Stone magazine. An exhilarating...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Miracle's Boys is a six-part miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Jacqueline Woodson. It was made for Noggin's nighttime block, The N,...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Showcases the perspectives of children as they experience challenging issues facing families today including homelessness, parental incarceration,...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    In a year when women are mobilizing and running for office in unprecedented numbers, see how some of the biggest international stories of recent...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Explore one of humanity’s most primal and destructive emotions – hate. At the heart of this timely series is the notion that if people...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    One woman's journey to discover the truth about Synanon, the experimental community that turned into a full-blown cult.

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    One woman's journey to discover the truth about Synanon, the experimental community that turned into a full-blown cult.

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