Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Message Pictures. In 2026, she made history by becoming the first woman director nominated for two Oscars in different categories in the same year. Recent credits include The Perfect Neighbor, which received an Oscar nomination in 2026, the series “Katrina: Come Hell and High Water” for Netflix which won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series and was nominated for 3 Emmy Awards, and the short "The Devil is Busy" for HBO that was nominated for a 2026 Oscar. Her credits also include"Reclaimed" for Sesame Workshop, the Oscar-shortlisted film “How We Get Free” for HBO, the series "Born in Synanon" for Paramount, and the series "Eyes on the Prize" For HBO, and the feature documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, which was nominated for the 2022 Critics’ Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and won a 2023 Emmy Award. She directed and was the showrunner for the series "Black and Missing" for HBO, which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series. She directed the film "Apart," with Rudy Valdez for HBO Max which won a 2022 Emmy Award.