Richa Rudola is an award-winning filmmaker from India whose thought-provoking work asks relevant questions about identity, consciousness, and the afterlife. 

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Her films Taaza Khoon (Fresh Blood) and The Seal screened at 45+ film festivals around the world, won 10+ awards, and can be viewed on Amazon Prime, Alaska Airlines, Future Of Film Is Female, and ShortsTV. Richa’s TV pilot screenplay One Rose won the 2020 Nashville Film Festival for Best Hour Drama and was selected for a live pitch at the 2025 American Film Market. Her scripts have placed in competitive screenwriting labs such as HollyShorts, Stowe Narrative Lab, ScreenCraft, and Shore Scripts.​​​

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Celebrated for its unique perspective on new parenthood, Richa’s latest film Cow Heavy And Floral, inspired by her own motherhood journey, continues to build an extraordinary life beyond the screen. The film won Best Mom-Themed Film at the 2025 MOM Film Festival and the 2025 OTV Atlas Social Impact Grant. The film screened at the iconic Lincoln Center in NYC, and was recently spotlighted by Kinema as an industry case study for impact in November 2025.

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Richa also spoke on IndieWire’s American Pavilion panel at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival alongside Ted Hope, discussing her innovative approach to audience-building and cultural impact through Cow Heavy And Floral. Request a screening of the film here.​

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With a multifaceted background in consulting and risk management, Richa combines analytical power with emotional storytelling to create thought-provoking cinema with a heart. As an artist she has been supported by The Future Of Film Is Female, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York Stage & Film, Tasveer, and Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute. She has served in leadership roles to film organizations such as Pano (formerly NYC Women Filmmakers) and Filmshop.

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She is dedicated to helping people open up to new perspectives, devoted to authenticity, driven by intellectual curiosity, and has it out for bad time management. In 2024 she co-founded Meals About Motherhood, an initiative to engender more honest conversations between people about motherhood and to use films/media as a tool to expand and drive those conversations.

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She is drawn to stories of courage, even more as a mother.

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