Rajal Pitroda is a producer of fiction and non-fiction films. She is a Women at Sundance Fellow, Impact Partners Producers Fellow, Film Independent Documentary Producing Lab Fellow, and Sundance Creative Producing Fellow.

Rajal’s recent credits include The Gas Station Attendant,” winner of a Special Mention Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Sheffield DocFest, the award winning documentary short “A Shot at History,” which premiered at the 2024 Double Exposure Film Festival, “Southern Fried Lies” which premiered on Peacock in April 2025, and “Down a Dark Stairwell,” which premiered at the 2020 True/False Film Festival and was broadcast on Independent Lens. Rajal’s work has been supported by Chicken & Egg Films, the Tribeca Film Institute, SFFILM, Black Public Media, Firelight Media and more.

Prior to producing, Rajal was the Founder and CEO of Cinevention, a media company where she designed and executed distribution strategies for feature films. Rajal started her career working in international marketing for Indian movies based in Mumbai. Rajal is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, A-Doc and the Documentary Producers Alliance. She has a degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from London Business School.

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PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Impact Producer Fellowship

COHORT YEAR

2018

WEBSITE

rajalpitroda.com

INSTAGRAM

@rajalpitroda