Shruti is an Atlanta-bred, Brooklyn-based Indian American filmmaker who tells intimate and incisive stories of life on the margins of society. Her award-winning work spans fiction, documentary, journalism, and animation. Most recently, she won the prestigious CAPE/Janet Yang Productions Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge to produce her short film "Zari." Shruti’s previous short film, "Esperanza," won Best Narrative Short at the Portland Film Festival, Best Student Short at Ojai Film Festival, and Best Screenplay at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. Shruti has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from UCLA, where she received the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Student Director Award and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowship.