2020 ShortFest Archive
In competition for Best Documentary Short and the Bridging the Borders Award
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Director Geeta Gandbhir has been nominated for six Emmy Awards and has won four. In 2019 she directed the series Why We Hate for Amblin Entertainment and Jigsaw Productions. In 2018, a feature documentary she co-produced titled The Sentence premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a 2019 Primetime Emmy. In 2017, she co-directed a feature documentary for HBO titled I Am Evidence which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and won a 2019 News and Doc Emmy. She also co-directed the documentary feature film Armed With Faith for PBS which premiered at the 2017 Sheffield Film Festival and won a 2019 News and Doc Emmy. In 2016, other feature docs she co-directed include Prison Dogs which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival, and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. She created and is co-directing and co-producing a series on race with The New York Times Op-Docs titled The Conversation which won the AFI Documentary Film Festival and a MacArthur Grant.