Biography

Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker and writer based between New York City and Oslo. Shruti serves on E.C.C.O., a committee of entertainment and media leaders that has worked with members of the White House and Senate caucuses, chairing its Asian subcommittee. She has produced several feature films (including Spirit-winner H., and the Nora Ephron Prize-winner INITIALS SG) that have premiered at Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, Telluride, and Berlin.

Shruti recently directed TRIPPED UP, starring Leah Lewis, Ariel Winter and Vanessa Williams, which will be distributed by Decal (North America) and Universal Pictures (Global). Shruti sold DEATHSPA, a psychological horror film about a bachelorette party that goes wrong to Sony International, and is currently writing SECRET DAUGHTER for Amazon Studios, a feature drama which will star Priyanka Chopra and Sienna Miller, directed by Cannes-winner Anthony Chen. Her coming-of-age feature comedy, PRIYA, AT 12, will be produced by Nikki Silver, and Meena Harris' Phenomenal Media.

On the TV front, Shruti is a writing-EP on the half-hour TV series BROWN BABY (based on the eponymous memoir by acclaimed British novelist, Nikesh Shukla), which will star Himesh Patel, set up at Apple UK, and has been developing FLOSSY, a half-hour with comedian and writer Kerry Coddett.

Shruti has directed and produced commercials, branded content, short docs, and music videos, for clients like Nike, Netflix, Unilever and Michael Kors through her production company honto88. and she recently started Prism Entertainment with producers Megha Kadakia and Priya Giri Desai to craft South-Asian focused films and television series. Previously, she was an executive at NYLON, MTV, and Conde Nast, producing the CLIO-winning 73 Questions series for Vogue.