Richa Rudola
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. Richa’s TV pilot screenplay One Rose won the 2020 Nashville Film Festival for Best Hour Drama. Her scripts have placed in competitive screenwriting labs such as HollyShorts, Stowe Narrative Lab, ScreenCraft, and Shore Scripts.
Richa's latest film Cow Heavy And Floral, inspired by her own motherhood journey, had its world premiere at Tasveer Film Festival in October 2024 and continues its film festival journey.
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.
Richa is the co-founder of Meals About Motherhood, an initiative in keeping with her mission to help mothers accept and love all parts of themselves.
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.
Cow Heavy and Floral
A postpartum writer races a deadline while navigating an identity crisis across her many personas
narrative drama / narrative dramedy
“this film is my love letter to women, especially those that choose to become mothers. The story for CHAF is inspired by my own journey of motherhood as I struggled to reconcile all the parts of my new identity with postpartum depression, and eventually came to a new emotional acceptance. Making this film with a collaborative community of mom filmmakers and allies has helped to recompose me and I stand tall with them as we try to catalyze social conversation around motherhood in the film industry and beyond.” - Richa