Ruchi Mital is an independent filmmaker with a creative writing and social justice background. In 2014, Ruchi produced We Could Be King, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Her subsequent films Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016), and This is Personal (2019) premiered at Sundance. For HBO, she produced the Emmy- and Cinema Eye-nominated four-part documentary series, The Case Against Adnan Syed. In 2021, she produced The Me You Can’t See, a global documentary series about mental health for Apple TV+. This World is Not My Own, a hybrid documentary about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe that Ruchi produced and co-wrote is premiering at SXSW and Hot Docs in 2023. Ruchi authored a chapter in the NYT Critics Pick Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe about the filmmaking process.
In 2020, Ruchi was selected as one of DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 list of emerging non-fiction talents. She has served as a filmmaking mentor through the 2021 Sundance Producer’s Intensive and 2022 DOCNYC Storytelling Incubator. Ruchi holds a Masters in Media Studies from The New School, with a concentration on the art form that she loves: the documentary.