Geeta gandbhir biography
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It’s the kind of neighborhood dispute that probably happens, in one form or another, everyday in every community in the country. She directed and show ran the series “Black and Missing” for HBO which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series.
And what you get is as real and devastating a view of America that you are likely to see anywhere.
Geeta Gandbhir embarked on her career in narrative film under the guidance of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard. When she was finally arrested four days later, we remained concerned that she would be set free by a jury, because, again, Florida’s stand-your-ground laws are often weaponized against people of color.
For us, that was critical.
“The Perfect Neighbor,” made up almost entirely of footage taken by police body cameras, is as unexpected as it is essential.
“The Perfect Neighbor” is a project that found veteran documentary director Geeta Gandbhir (“I am Evidence,” “Why We Hate”) and her producing partner Nikon Kwantu after the killing of a black woman by her white neighbor in Florida in 2023.
The legal team did a FOIA request for all the materials the police department had, which then became public record. On the 911 recording she says she’s afraid for her life. And in those cases, there is a huge racial disparity with the conviction rate much higher for black people who kill white people. Justice perhaps is served.
If I sound weary of the genre, I am.
She seems to be constantly baiting the kids, as if she’s looking for a fight, calling them retards and worse. The documentary is assembled almost entirely from body-camera footage recorded by the cops whom Lorincz frequently called to the neighborhood, in an attempt to restrict her Black neighbors and their kids from living their lives and enjoying public space.
They were each other’s family. Originally, we were trying to use it to help the legal team, but in watching it, I realized that this was the film. She was returning from Jamaica, but her plane was diverted to New York because of the weather. We got on a plane and went down to Florida with her.
We decided to start filming because we were really concerned that Susan would not be arrested due to Florida’s stand-your-ground laws.
Susan had been calling the police on the community for two years.
So we went through all the footage. In the thirty-eight states that have some variation of a stand your ground defense, homicides have gone up by 700 cases a year. In text over the credits, the real meaning and message of the film is conveyed. She is currently directing a series for Netflix with Spike Lee and Samantha Knowles, which is a retrospective on New Orleans post-Katrina.
As a Director, recent credits include The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered at Sundance in 2025, short film Reclaimed for Sesame Workshop, The Devil is Busy for HBO, the Oscar Shortlisted film How We Get Free for HBO, the series Born in Synanon for Paramount, the series Eyes on the Prize for HBO, the feature doc Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, which was nominated for the 2022 Critics Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and won a 2023 Emmy Award.