About

Shetani [sha-thå-´ne]. v. hindi: getting up to some mischief.

Shetani Films develops and produces multi-cultural media for a global audience. This includes narrative and documentary films in both short and feature formats, music videos, and advertisements.

Founder Geeta Malik received her Masters of Fine Arts from UCLA’s prestigious Graduate Film Program in Directing. Geeta has a strong track record of making films that address issues in the South Asian community, but with universal themes.

She has created several acclaimed narrative short films that have played in festivals worldwide. Her viral narrative short, Aunty Gs, earned a College Television Award in comedy from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (a “Student Emmy”). Her narrative thesis film, Beast, was funded in part by the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Award. Geeta also received the Coppel Screenwriting Award and the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Director Award while at UCLA.

The College Television Awards

Geeta worked for several years at Showbiz India Television, where she was lead editor, director, and segment producer. The weekly newsmagazine featured news from the Indian Film Industry and was broadcast internationally. She currently works for the MY HERO Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to social activism and media arts education around the globe.  Geeta has traveled to China and Egypt to teach filmmaking workshops, and her most recent piece, Karma Dance, is being broadcast on Current TV.

Geeta is currently developing her feature film, Troublemaker.

To download Geeta’s professional resume, click here.

Contact Geeta here.