KISHORI RAJAN | At-Large Officer

Kishori Rajan recently joined Tessa Thompson as her producing partner for the newly launched company Viva Maude, making film and television with a first look deal at HBO and HBO Max. Rajan is the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed HBO series RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS, which won a Peabody Award for "breaking the mold of what TV can be". In 2019 she received the Cinereach Producer’s Award for her “remarkable commitment to complex and authentic films.” Unscripted producing work includes EATER’S GUIDE TO THE WORLD on Hulu, and BEST WALK for Topic Studios. Feature narrative film work includes the THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONG ROAD starring Sabrina Carpenter and Danny Trejo, THE PRICE (Samuel Goldwyn Films), and AMERICAN FABLE (IFC Films); credits also include the Spirit-nominated films FOUR and GIMME THE LOOT (IFC Films). She's a 2017 Cannes Producers Fellow, a 2017 Tribeca All Access grantee, and the first ever American producer to be selected for the EAVE European Producers Network. Kishori contributes as a writer to Filmmaker Magazine and has guest lectured at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Johns Hopkins University and the Made in NY Media Center. She's served as an industry panelist at SXSW and IFP's Screen Forward Conference and received a BA in Film Studies from Columbia University.