Shruti Ganguly

Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker and writer based between New York City and Oslo. Shruti served 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. She is a Co-EP on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary, TO KILL A TIGER and Co-Producer on BAKSHO BONDI (“SHADOWBOX”) which premiered this year at Berlinale.

Shruti directed TRIPPED UP, starring Leah Lewis, Ariel Winter and Vanessa Williams, distributed by Universal Pictures and Decal, and wrote SECRET DAUGHTER for Amazon Studios, a feature drama which will star Priyanka Chopra and Sienna Miller, directed by Cannes-winner Anthony Chen. 

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 PrismEntertainment with producers Megha Kadakia and Priya Giri Desai to craft South Asia inspired films and television series with acclaimed writers and artists. Previously, she was an executive at NYLON, MTV, and Conde Nast, producing the CLIO-winning 73 Questions series for Vogue.   

Shruti is a co-founder of the Resistance Revival Chorus, a collective born out of the Women's March that brings together artists and activists to use music and joy as an act of resistance, and often finds a way to combine art and impact through her work.

Shruti is a published writer (Nevertheless They Persisted, Penguin) and has written for Vogue UK, Vogue India, Harper’s Bazaar India, The Juggernaut and more. She is on the board of New York Women in Film and TV (NYWIFT) and is also an artist ambassador for the NYCLU. 

Shruti received her Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, and went to NYU's dual degree MBA/MFA program at Tisch and Stern. She hails from India, by way of Oman.