Meet the Team
Sarita Khurana
Co-director/ Producer
SARITA KHURANA is an award-winning filmmaker whose feature film, A SUITABLE GIRL, won the 2017 Best New Documentary Director Prize at Tribeca Film Festival. Her other films include THE LAST RESORT (2025), which won the Best Documentary award at the International South Asian Film Festival Canada, and the Emmy nominated short, CROSSROADS (2022) among others. Sarita's films have been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Women's Giving Circle, the Center for Asian American Media among others. Sarita is the co-founder of Cine Qua Non Lab, an international development lab and residency for filmmakers, based in Mexico and the U.S. She holds in MFA in Film from Columbia University.
Yoav Attias
Co-director/ Executive Producer
YOAV ATTIAS is an award-winning filmmaker and creative director. He is the co-director of Fault Lines, a feature documentary about the housing crisis that premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2024. He was a producer for the Peabody Award-winning docu-series BRICK CITY featuring Cory Booker as the mayor of Newark. He served as the showrunner on CHICAGOLAND, an 8-hour docu-series for CNN, which was Executive Produced by Robert Redford and received widespread critical acclaim. He was also co-creator of the TV docu-soap GAINESVILLE on CMT/Viacom, and supervising producer on OCEAN WARRIORS, which was produced for Animal Planet and Paul Allen's production company, Vulcan.
R J Narang
Executive Producer
RJ NARANG is an entrepreneur, public policy advocate, and philanthropist. He has served as the CEO of an end-to-end tech services company, public service board member, and director of the Narang Foundation which provides grants to state and local non for profits. He is currently the founder and principal of Great White Buffalo, LLC, a production company dedicated to creating thought-provoking and educational media for the public.
Nick Rathod
Executive Producer
NICK RATHOD, over the span of his twenty-year career, has built a reputation of building successful campaigns, businesses, governmental and non-governmental institutions and as a key advisor to the nation’s leaders. He was the campaign manager for Beto O'Rourke's gubernatorial run, the Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House and was the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama-Biden Transition Team. In Hollywood, Nick was the Executive Producer of a multi-award winning short film called Now & Never.
Prerana Thakurdesai
Producer
PRERANA THAKURDESAI’S producing credits include the feature doc, THE LAST ECSTATIC DAYS (winner, Iris Impact Award), THE LAST RESORT (winner of Best Documentary at iSAFF,) oscar-qualified short WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU, The History Channel's 9/11: THE LEGACY and the hit Indian TV series, SATYAMEV JAYATE. A DOC NYC Documentary New Leader honoree, Prerana is also the co-founder of Bitchitra Collective, a network of 450+ women and non-binary documentary filmmakers of Indian heritage.
Sunita Prasad
Editor/ Writer
SUNITA PRASAD is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker best known for editing impactful feature documentaries such as AFTERSHOCK (Peabody Award Winner, Emmy Nominee, Sundance Special Jury Award Winner; Hulu), STORMING CAESARS PALACE (BlackStar Shine Award Winner; Independent Lens), and THE RINGLEADER (HBO). Sunita’s work as a director has exhibited internationally at film festivals and venues such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Centre Clark in Montreal, and Flux Factory in New York City.
Simon Taufique
Composer
SIMON TAUFIQUE is a British Indian, Emmy-nominated and multiple award-winning composer and producer, known for Land of Gold (HBO MAX), The Interpreters (PBS), The Weight of Gold (HBO), Imperium (Lionsgate/Universal), and Berlinale-winner, She's Lost Control. He is a Sundance, Berlinale, and Tribeca Alumni, contributes as a juror for Oscar-qualifying festivals, a Fellow of multiple film programs, Co-President of HRTS Associates-NY, and teaches at NYU and Sundance Institute.
Suzanne Giordano
Line Producer
Suzanne is a Brooklyn-based Line Producer with over 15 years of experience in production management, specializing in documentary filmmaking. Some of her recent credits include the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series PHOTOGRAPHER for National Geographic, EARTH, WIND & FIRE (TO BE CELESTIAL VS. THAT’S THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson for HBO, and the Sundance-selected MURDER IN BIG HORN for Showtime/Hulu.
Arsh Harjani
Archival Producer
Arsh Harjani is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. His credits include Peabody Award-winning PATRIOT ACT with Hasan Minhaj, and IDA Award-winning A TOWN CALLED VICTORIA. He spent four years as the lead archival producer on Vox Media’s productions for Netflix, including their flagship series EXPLAINED. He has served as a Judge for the News & Doc Emmys and the IDA Awards. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Archival Producers Alliance, and the Television Academy.
Zakia Smith
Post-production Supervisor
Boston born and raised, Zakia Smith moved to New York to attend NYU where she studied film and theater. After graduation, she briefly worked for Actors’ Equity, but quickly moved into film, first as a script reader and project manager. She subsequently moved up to head of post and post producer positions for films and television, primarily in documentary and true crime. She has worked on documentary projects for Netflix, Amazon, and Peacock. Her first loves are writing and photography, and she is currently querying her first fiction novel.
Sam Valenti
Assistant Editor
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Khushali Haji
Social Media Producer/ AP
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