---
name: "Mridu Chandra"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mridu-chandra"
fi1m_id: "mridu-chandra"
imdb_id: "nm1297550"
tmdb_id: 1085806
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:59:14.021494+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."
---

# Mridu Chandra

## Identity

Mridu Chandra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mridu-chandra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mridu-chandra
- **IMDb ID:** nm1297550
- **TMDB ID:** 1085806
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1297550/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1085806

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1297550/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1085806

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Becoming Cousteau*](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Mridu Chandra is a New York-based producer and filmmaker. She has produced documentaries and narrative films that have premiered at festivals including Sundance, Telluride and SXSW, and aired on PBS, HBO and Disney+.

She produced *Becoming Cousteau* (2021), directed by Liz Garbus, which received a BAFTA nomination for Best Documentary. She also co-produced and served as archival producer on *Cured* (2020), earning an Emmy nomination for research. Her work often addresses civil rights, environmental justice and LGBTQ+ history.

Chandra has worked in archival research and clearance on films including *Steve Jobs* (2015) and *Whose Streets?* (2017). From 2016 to 2019 she was founding director of IF/Then Shorts at the Tribeca Film Institute, supporting underrepresented filmmakers.

*Sources: mriduchandra.com, imdb.com, documentaries.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Becoming Cousteau* (2021), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Becoming Cousteau* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/becoming-cousteau.md)
- *How Does It Start* (2019), Producer
- *Whose Streets?* (2017), Associate Producer
- *Ask the Sexpert* (2017), Producer
- *Shadow World* (2016), Archival Footage Coordinator, Post Production Supervisor
- *This Changes Everything* (2015), Co-Producer
- *That Film About Money* (2014), as Producer
- *Out in the Night* (2014), Producer
- *The Canal Street Madam* (2010), Producer
- *Punching at the Sun* (2006), Associate Producer
- *Let the Church Say, Amen* (2003), Producer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/mridu-chandra