Sweta Rai | |
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 Sweta Rai in 2020 | |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer entrepreneur film director |
| Organization(s) | Indo Holly Films Diverse Cinema |
| Website | www |
Sweta Rai is an Indian film producer, director and entrepreneur who is based in United States. [1] [2] [3]
She runs her own film production company called Indo Holly Films and over-the-top content platform Diverse Cinema. [4] [5] Sweta has a Master of Fine Arts degree in producing from the American Film Institute [6] and she was one of the jury members of the 17th Beverly Hills Film Festival. [7]
Sweta Rai was one of the producers for Surviving the Wild , featuring Jon Voight and Jamie Kennedy. [8] Later, she worked as a supervising producer on the 2020 Hallmark Channel feature film J.L. Family Ranch 2: The Wedding Gift featuring James Caan, Bo Derek, and Trevor Donovan. [9] She has also worked as a co-producer and executive producer for some other films. [10] [11] [12]
In 2020, She produced, and directed a documentary feature film called A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland [13] based on COVID-19 pandemic. [14] [15] [16] The film was also in the race for the 93rd Academy Awards. [17]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Producer | Director | Writer | ||||
| 2018 | Surviving the Wild | Yes | No | No | Co-producer Directed by Patrick Alessandrin Co-produced by Steven Paul, Patrick Alessandrin, Vail Bloom, and Michael Givens. | [10] |
| 2020 | JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift | Yes | No | No | Supervising producer It is the sequel to JL Ranch (2016) Featuring Bo Derek, Skyler Shaye, James Caan, Dylan Walsh, Jon Voight and Abby Brammell. | [9] |
| 2020 | A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland | Yes | Yes | Yes | Film was in the race for the 93rd Academy Awards | [17] [18] |
| TBA | Shades | Yes | Yes | Yes | About skin complexion biases that women face in different parts of the world. | [9] |
In 2022, she was awarded Women Impact Tech award by American Business Women’s Association as a part of American Business Women's Day. [4] [19]
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