Director: Ben Rekhi

Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of Punjabi and American descent. He produced the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Bomb the System, directed the SXSW Audience Award winner Waterborne, and wrote the English dialogues for Teen Patti. He later directed The Ashram, starring Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, and Radhika Apte, and Watch List, which premiered at Deauville and won two Filipino Oscars. His documentary The Reunited States premiered on Amazon and PBS. His short The Breakthrough Group qualified for the 2026 Oscars. He is completing Last Man In Tower and Breaking the Code, his sixth feature documentary.

Co-Director: Swetlana

Swetlana is a screenwriter, director, and award-winning journalist dedicated to exploring gender, migration and coming-of-age narratives. She has made films for Oxfam and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and written web-series for Discovery Plus and Amazon Prime. Money Mafia (Season 3) – a docuseries she co-wrote, earned a nomination at the Content South Asian Awards 2023. Her reportage has appeared in VICE, Feminism in India, and South Asian Today. She is also the founder of Grit News, a collective dedicated to independent journalism. A coming-of-age Netflix India show that she’s worked in the writers room of is slated for a 2027 release.