---
name: "Geeta Patel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geeta-patel"
fi1m_id: "geeta-patel"
imdb_id: "nm1203789"
tmdb_id: 1313885
wikidata_id: "Q114584352"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "22 December 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-30T20:33:53.542251+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Geeta Patel

## Identity

Geeta Patel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geeta-patel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geeta-patel
- **IMDb ID:** nm1203789
- **TMDB ID:** 1313885
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114584352
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeta_Patel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114584352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1203789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1313885

Director. Born 22 December 1975 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 22 December 1975, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Geeta V. Patel, Geeta Vasant Patel
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 71 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 73 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeta_Patel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114584352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1203789/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1313885

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Great*](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md) (74), [*The Mindy Project*](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) (72)
- **HBO Max:** [*Lanterns*](https://film.one/tv/lanterns.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geeta Vasant Patel (born 22 December 1975) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. She was born in Evanston, Illinois, and began her career in the early 2000s as an assistant writer on feature films including *The Fast and the Furious* (2001), *Blue Crush* (2002), *The Rundown* (2003) and *Mindhunters* (2004).

Patel made her directorial debut with the 2008 documentary *Project Kashmir*, which she also wrote and produced. In 2014 she co-directed, wrote, produced, edited and shot the documentary *Meet the Patels* with her brother Ravi Patel. She has since directed episodes of numerous television series, including *House of the Dragon* (2022–24), *Ahsoka* (2023), *The Great* (2020), *Atypical* (2017), *Dead to Me* (2019), *Superstore* (2015) and *Lanterns* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Lanterns* (2026), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/lanterns.md)
- *The Great* (2020), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *The Mindy Project* (2012), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lanterns* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/lanterns.md)
- *Under the Bridge* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Ahsoka* (2023), series, Director
- *House of the Dragon* (2022), series, Director
- *P-Valley* (2020), series, Director
- *The Great* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *Dead to Me* (2019), series, Director
- *Chambers* (2019), series, Director
- *Sweetbitter* (2018), series, Director
- *Champions* (2018), series, Director
- *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), series, Director
- *Atypical* (2017), series, Director
- *Santa Clarita Diet* (2017), series, Director
- *The Mick* (2017), series, Director
- *Speechless* (2016), series, Director
- *The Magicians* (2015), series, Director
- *Superstore* (2015), series, Director
- *Fresh Off the Boat* (2015), series, Director
- *Meet the Patels* (2014), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
- *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md)
- *Project Kashmir* (2008), Director
- *Independent Lens* (1999), series, Director, Writer

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