India Sweets and Spices
2021
Based on Geeta Malik’s own script “Dinner With Friends” that won the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting. The film follows a young woman who, after her first year at college, returns to her affluent suburban New Jersey home for the summer and discovers distressing secrets about her seemingly picture-perfect Indian American family.
- Director / Writer: Geeta Malik
- Cast: Manisha Koirala, Adil Hussain, Sophia Ali
- Producers: Sidney Kimmel, John Penotti, Naomi Despres, Gigi Pritzker
- Executive Producers: Mark O'Connor, Kilian Kerwin, Rachel Shane