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Ruchi Mital is an Emmy-winning filmmaker/producer and has been producing documentaries for over a decade. She is the Foundress of Solani Media.
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Ruchi Mital is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and writer with a social justice background. She is the Foundress of Solani Media, whose first co-production, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (dir Martina Radwan) was an official selection at DOCNYC 2023. Ruchi produced and co-wrote this film. In 2014, Ruchi produced We Could Be King, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Her subsequent films Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016), and This is Personal (2019) premiered at Sundance. For HBO, she produced the Emmy-nominated series, The Case Against Adnan Syed. In 2021, she produced The Me You Can’t See for Apple TV+ and in 2023 the emmy-nominated Encounters for Netflix. This World is Not My Own, a hybrid documentary about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe that Ruchi produced and co-wrote premiered at SXSW in 2023 and will air on PBS in Spring 2025. Ruchi authored a chapter in the NYT Critics Pick Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe about the filmmaking process. In 2020, Ruchi was selected as one of DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 list of emerging non-fiction talents. She has served as a filmmaking mentor through the 2021 Sundance Producer’s Intensive and 2022 DOCNYC Storytelling Incubator and served as a juror for DOCNYC and Reel Sisters of the African Diaspora film festival. Ruchi holds a Masters in Media Studies from The New School, with a concentration on the art form that she loves: the documentary.
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Too often producers are left to sort out thorny production issues on their own: from access to archival, releases to fair use; from ethics to logistics. These seemingly small issues can have major impact on a production and we can use this time to talk through them as I've found my way through many over the years.
Session Length: 45 mins
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One of my favorite parts of the filmmaking process is talking through story -- what is the best way to tell yours within the parameters you have? What are creative solutions you may not have considered? How do you find that sweet spot between content and form? What is working / what is not? Let's discuss! Whether its at the beginning as you're developing your film, or when you're at the rough/fine cut stage, I love to talk story and believe I bring unique perspectives to each project.
Session Length: 2 hrs
Starting at $200.00
Let's talk grants and fundraising! Having written so many applications myself, and with a life as a former grantwriter, non-profit development officer, I have a strong view into what makes a successful grant application.
Session Length: 1 hr
Starting at $150.00
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