Scripts available for option
Rhea has written three feature films, one pilot that placed as a quarter-finalist at AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2026, and two shorts, both of which have toured the festival circuit and won awards in the U.S. and globally. Three of her screenplays are available for optioning below.
Sports comedy · Feature
The high-intensity world of professional badminton is relentless, competitive, and elite. When a single dad—and worldwide badminton champion—gets stuck with his teenage daughter for the summer of the Thai Badminton Open, he must decide whether to follow his dreams or sacrifice everything to save his daughter from her bad-boy Thai boyfriend.
Drama · Hour-long pilot
There are no days off. There is no sitting out with a torn ACL. And to hell with your GPA. There’s just Zamaana, the most feared Bollywood dance team on the college circuit, where a hungry freshman fights to hold onto her body, her friendships, and her future during its most vicious season in history.
Feature screenplay
A broke, closeted writer arrives at a crumbling Missouri iron mill to find her fellowship has been hijacked by the woman who outed her, and that the mill has been waiting a century for the two of them.
Screenplay
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Festivals, press & awards
Rhea has worked on Oscar-nominated documentaries, award-winning political ads, and short films. Rhea has produced feature films and short films that have been the official selections for Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and more. Her work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and PBS. Her ads have appeared across OTT platforms, broadcast television, and radio.
People tell Rhea she looks young for her age. Then they can’t believe how much shit she’s already done: an Oscar-nominated documentary, Sundance and Tribeca premieres, and working on (and winning) a presidential election. It’s all part of a lifelong quest for validation she’ll never get. Her Indian immigrant parents wanted an engineer, so naturally, she dropped out of engineering school to make films. Her family is thrilled.
After NYU Tisch came five years in production across politics, documentary and narrative. At AL Media, Thematic Campaigns and the DNC, she has made political ads for candidates like Joe Biden, Nithya Raman and Abdul El-Sayed. She swore 2020 would be her last cycle of political media. She has worked every cycle since.
Rhea wrote and directed the award-winning shorts Flowers and Bereft, and wrote a Nike commercial, which she considers her athletic career—she needs an inhaler to walk .1 miles. Her feature directorial debut, the documentary Jazba, is still in the works. Independent film is going great.
Now an Annenberg Fellow in the M.F.A. Screenwriting program at USC, she arrived thinking that with all the death, divorce and depression she knew about, she’d for sure be writing drama. Turns out she’s really funny. Or rather, she thinks she’s really funny. Other people look at each other when she tries to make a joke. Her scripts are about people who crave validation and will do anything to get it.
Her family has requested that all script sales go toward reimbursing them for engineering school.
