Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker and writer based between New York City and Oslo. Shruti serves 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, and she is a Co-EP on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary, TO KILL A TIGER.

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

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 Prism Entertainment with producers Megha Kadakia and Priya Giri Desai to craft South-Asian focused films and television series. 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. 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), Neutrogena Studios, and Commit2Change. She is also an artist ambassador for the NYCLU. Shruti received her Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, and went to NYU’s dual MFA (Tisch Grad Film) and MBA (Stern) program . She hails from India, by way of Oman.