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Sweta Rai | |
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![]() Sweta Rai in 2020 | |
Occupation | Film Producer |
Organization(s) | Indo Holly Films Diverse Cinema |
Website | www |
Sweta Rai is an Indian film producer and entrepreneur who is based in United States.[1][2][3][4] She is the founder and CEO of Diverse Cinema, an OTT streaming channel, and a film production company Indo Holly Films.[5][6]
Rai's father Dr. Surendra Kumar Rai is a professor of political science and author of books.[7] Her mother, Anita Rai, is a professor of Hindi literature, a newspaper columnist in the 80s, and a radio artist.[8] Sweta Rai has a Master of Fine Arts degree in producing from the American Film Institute.[9]
She worked as a TV Newscaster in India. She then worked for the Discovery Networks Asia Pacific in Singapore as a distribution executive and was also designated as their global diversity ambassador.[10] She was one of the jury members of the 17th Beverly Hills Film Festival.[11]
Rai was one of the producers for Surviving the Wild, featuring Jon Voight and Jamie Kennedy.[12] Later, she worked as a supervising producer on the 2020 Hallmark Channel feature film J.L. Family Ranch 2: The Wedding Gift featuring James Caan, Bo Derek, and Trevor Donovan.[8]
Some of her other produced feature films are The Ghost Beyond (featuring Trevor Donovan), Orphan Horse (featuring Eva LaRue, Jon Voight), Heaven & Hell a.k.a. Reverse Heaven (featuring Burt Ward).[13][14][15]
In the year 2020, Rai produced, and directed a documentary feature film called A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland, featuring the lives of immigrant doctors from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.[16] This film featured USA's first COVID double lung transplant surgeon and four other immigrant doctors.[17][18] The film was released on Apple TV and other OTT platforms and was also in the race for the 93rd Academy Awards.[19]
Rai set up a diversity streaming channel Diverse Cinema.[1] In March 2021, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan showed his support of the film production company following a meeting with Rai.[20][21] The films being streamed as of 2022 are cross-culture stories.[6]
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | ||
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Producer | Director | Writer | ||||
2018 | Surviving the Wild | Yes | No | No | Co-producer Directed by Patrick Alessandrin Co-produced by Steven Paul, Patrick Alessandrin, Vail Bloom, and Michael Givens. |
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2018 | Heaven & Hell | Yes | No | No | Executive Producer Featuring Burt Ward |
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2018 | Orphan Horse | Yes | No | No | Co-producer Directed by Sean McNamara Featuring Jon Voight and Vail Bloom |
[15][23] |
2020 | The Ghost Beyond | Yes | No | No | Co-producer Directed by R. Michael Givens Featuring Vail Bloom, Trevor Donovan and Steven Paul |
[23] |
2019 | Nun's Deadly Confession | Yes | No | No | Executive producer Featuring R. Michael Givens |
[24] |
2020 | JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift | Yes | No | No | Supervising producer It is the sequel to JL Ranch (2016) Featuring Bo Derek, Skyler Shaye, James Caan, Dylan Walsh, Jon Voight and Abby Brammell. |
[8] |
2020 | A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland | Yes | Yes | Yes | Film was in the race for the 93rd Academy Awards | [19][25] |
TBA | Shades | Yes | Yes | Yes | About skin complexion biases that women face in different parts of the world. | [8] |
In 2022 American Business Women's Day, she was nominated in the technology category of the Women Impact Tech award.[5][26]