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.
Rhea has written three feature films, one pilot, and two shorts—both of which have toured the festival circuit and won awards in the U.S. and globally. Two of her screenplays are available for optioning below.
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.
Rhea Dudani is a Los Angeles–based writer/director and producer.
She wrote and directed Flowers (2025), which premiered at New York Shorts International, and previously wrote and directed Bereft (2022), which won the Kalborg Award, 2nd Place, at Visions and Voices. In 2025, she wrote a Nike commercial, expanding her storytelling into branded work. She is currently developing the television pilot Push It and the feature film Retreat, both in active development.
She is currently directing her first feature documentary, Jazba (2023–present), and recently associate produced the feature documentaries Post Mortem (2026) and threeASFOUR: Full Circle (2026), which had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in 2026. Her narrative short Flowers (2025) premiered at New York Shorts International, and Skin Deep (2025), which she produced, screened at Tasveer Film Festival.
Her previous work includes associate producing The Easy Kind, which premiered at Telluride, and serving as Production Coordinator on the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, which premiered at Sundance. She also production coordinated Storm Lake, a Peabody Award–winning documentary that screened at DOC NYC and aired on PBS and Amazon.
A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Screenwriting at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Rhea is an Annenberg Fellow for USC's Annenberg School for Communication, focusing on research at the intersection of journalism and cinema. Rhea currently supports industry outreach for USC SCA's First Pitch, where she interfaces with agents, managers, and producers for the annual showcase.
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