Biography

Geeta produces lifestyle, documentary and online programming for Canadian and International broadcast. She produced Neat, a 40-part lifestyle series for HGTV Canada and Discovery Home US that airs in ten countries around the world. Her documentary credits include Gemini winner and Hot Docs favourite Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel (TVO, Bravo!), the Gemini Nominated Some Kind of Arrangement (NFB, CBC) and the critically acclaimed Becoming 13 (NFB, CBC). Selected awards include a Gemini nomination for the Donald Brittain Award, a Golden Sheaf Award, a Gold Cindy Award, a Gold Remi, a Best Television Website Gemini nomination and a Chris Award. Career highlights include: Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Associated Producers, Film Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival, and Associate Producer, National Film Board of Canada.

At the OMDC, Geeta was in charge of the Non-theatrical and New Media programs. At ExtendMedia she helped pioneer online extensions of lifestyle, travel and dramatic television programming for a variety of international broadcasters. Geeta was a founding member of the WIFT Toronto Mentorship Program, served on the board of the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund and Co-Ordinated New Initiatives in Film, a Studio D program for women of colour and women of the First Nations. She studied Film and Communications at SFU and McGill University.