Richa Rudola is an award-winning filmmaker from India whose thought-provoking work asks relevant questions about identity, consciousness, and the afterlife.
Her films Taaza Khoon (Fresh Blood) and The Seal screened at 45+ film festivals around the world, won 10+ awards, and can be viewed on Amazon Prime, Alaska Airlines, Future Of Film Is Female, and ShortsTV. Her scripts have placed in competitive screenwriting labs such as HollyShorts, Nashville, Stowe Narrative Lab, ScreenCraft, and Shore Scripts.
Richa’s latest film Cow Heavy And Floral, inspired by her own motherhood journey, will have its world premiere at Tasveer Film Festival in October 2024.
Connect with Richa
With a multifaceted background in consulting and risk management, Richa combines analytical power with emotional storytelling to create thought-provoking cinema with a heart. As an artist she has been supported by The Future Of Film Is Female, New York Stage & Film, Tasveer, and Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute. She has served in leadership roles to film organizations such as Pano (formerly NYC Women Filmmakers) and Filmshop.
She is dedicated to helping people open up to new perspectives, devoted to authenticity, driven by intellectual curiosity, and has it out for bad time management.
She is drawn to stories of courage, even more as the mother of a toddler. For more see www.richarudola.com.
Where are your beginnings as a storyteller, creator, and filmmaker begin?
My interest in films in general began while attending a weekly movie club during grad school. My masters degree in statistics had nothing to do with films but the movie club exposed me to different kinds of films than what I was used to. I watched independent films and foreign language films and realized I did like films, those that made me think. So I got interested in screenwriting and took some courses in that on the side while working a corporate job on an H1B visa in NYC. I also watched a ton of films visiting the many independent film theaters in the city I was lucky to live in. That became my film education and put me on the path which would bring me to writing and directing films years later.
How has your participation in the Regenerative Creation Cohort impacted your work as an artist?
I worked with Regen Creation Cohort for a whole year which was extremely transformative for me. Doing deep, introspective inner work under the leadership of skilled artists and with the companionship of other artists on their respective paths helped me in numerous ways. It helped me find the courage of conviction to make my boldest and best work to date and to put into place a plan of action and co-creation whose fruits of labor are still ripening to perfection. It helped me turn inwards for direction and tap into my own power to manifest things. These types of words used to sound like “woo woo” to me earlier, but now I believe in their power because I have seen first stand how to manifest and harness your own limitless potential. We have very exciting plans, soon to be announced, to share the film and related projects with the world.
