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. Her scripts have placed in competitive screenwriting labs such as HollyShorts, Stowe Narrative Lab, ScreenCraft, and Shore Scripts.

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Richa's latest film Cow Heavy And Floral, inspired by her own motherhood journey, premiered at the 2024 Tasveer Film Festival and 2025 Athena Film Festival before winning the 2025 OTV Atlas Social Impact Grant. Request a screening of the film here. Richa spoke on a 2025 Cannes Film Festival IndieWire American Pavilion Panel alongside Ted Hope on the unique approach to audience building with Cow Heavy And Floral social impact campaign.

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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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