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Swetha Regunathan

(She/her)

Writer and Director

Washington D.C., District of Columbia US

Available for Freelance

About

SWETHA REGUNATHAN is an award-winning writer and narrative filmmaker based in NYC. Her work explores nostalgia, disappointment, South Asian-American identity, and ecological sickness. Swetha's films have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. She was a 2019 finalist for the SHOWTIME® Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and on the shortlist for a 2017 Lexus Short Films award. Her work has screened at several festivals around the world and been featured on Short of the Week, NoBudge, Brooklyn Vegan, and Rolling Stone India. If There Is Light, a short doc she produced for Queen Collective x P&G, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and streamed on Hulu and Le Cinéma Club. In 2020 Swetha was selected to participate in the Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab and the inaugural 1497 South Asian Writers Lab with her feature in development, Sundarbans. She was also 2020-21 IFP Marcie Bloom Fellow. When not developing her projects, she writes, produces, and directs branded video for clients like Vox, The Annex, Delta x NBC, and NPR. Currently she's producing Between Earth & Sky, winner of the If/Then Shorts x Redford Center Nature Access Pitch at DOCNYC 2021. Swetha’s writing has appeared in Huffington Post, n+1, Guernica, and other publications. In 2009 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Best American Essay. She has an MFA from the Graduate Film program at NYU and a PhD in English Literature from Brown.