Geeta Malik

Geeta Malik, writer and director, is the winner of the inaugural Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, the Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship, and the Austin Film Festival Comedy Screenplay Award for her feature script, Dinner with Friends (retitled to India Sweets and Spices).

Geeta directed India Sweets and Spices, which stars Bollywood superstar Manisha Koirala (Heeramandi, Dil Se…), Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, Delhi Crime), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), and Rish Shah (Ms. Marvel). The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was released theatrically by Bleecker Street, and is currently streaming on a variety of platforms, including Hulu and Netflix.

Geeta was a mentee for Ryan Murphy’s HALF Initiative, and was also one of seven directors selected for the Warner Bros. Television Directors' Workshop. She directed episode 217 of the Emmy-winning show Abbott Elementary, titled "Mural Arts." Geeta is a Film Independent Project Involve Fellow and an alumna of UCLA’s graduate film program. She wrote and directed the viral narrative short, Aunty Gs, which earned a College Television Award in comedy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her other short films include Shameless, Beast, and Apu’s Revenge. Her first feature film, Troublemaker, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival.