Geeta Patel
Geeta Vasant Patel is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer best known for her work on Meet the Patels, House of the Dragon, and Ahsoka.
Career
In the early 2000s, Patel began her career by serving as an assistant writer on The Beast, The [Fast and the Furious |The Fast and the Furious], Blue Crush, The Rundown, and Mindhunters. In 2008, she made her directorial debut with the documentary film Project Kashmir. In 2014, she directed and wrote her second documentary, Meet the Patels, with her brother Ravi V. Patel. In October 2015, Fox Searchlight acquired the rights to remake the film, with the Patel siblings set to co-write and co-direct.In the 2010s, she directed episodes of Independent Lens, Sense8, The Mindy Project, Survivor's Remorse, Superstore, The Mick, Fresh Off the Boat, Speechless, Champions, Atypical, Santa Clarita Diet, Chambers, Dead to Me, Sweetbitter, and Runaways. In the following decade, she worked on the television series The Magicians, The Great, and P-Valley.
In January 2020, Patel was recruited to direct episodes 6 and 7 of The Witcher season 2, but, in October, it was revealed that Patel was replaced by Louise Hooper, due to scheduling conflicts and refusing to be committed to a months-long stay in the United Kingdom, after production was suspended due to the COVID-19. In 2023, she directed an episode of the Star Wars series Ahsoka. In April 2024, she directed an episode of the streaming miniseries Under the Bridge. By August 2024, she directed three episodes for the streaming series House of the Dragon. In February 2025, Patel was announced to be directing some episodes of DC Studios' Lanterns for HBO.
Filmography
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