This episode's featured filmmaker is producer, writer, and director Sweta Rai. Sweta is CEO of her LA-based production company, Indo Holly Films. She has three master's degrees and has produced movies starring James Caan and Bo Derek. She directed the 2020 documentary A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Oscar race. From quarantine, Sweta remotely filmed gripping stories of five frontline healthcare workers, all Indian immigrants. In chronicling these doctors' experiences, she delves into how their families in the U.S. and in India dealt with the impossible situation. We'll be talking with her about directing this documentary during and about the global pandemic.

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