Ben Rekhi 

Filmmaker, Director, Writer & Producer

Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent, working between Los Angeles and Mumbai. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Peter Stark Program at USC, Rekhi began his career working with the Coen Brothers on the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and was later hired by George Clooney to shoot behind-the-scenes footage for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Rekhi founded Drops Entertainment and produced his first feature, Bomb the System, which was nominated for the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. His directorial debut, Waterborne, was runner-up for the narrative audience prize at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. He went on to produce Plush for director Catherine Hardwicke, and later oversaw the Hindi-language film slate in India for producer Jason Blum. His film The Ashram, a spiritual thriller starring Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, and Radhika Apte, was released by The Orchard. His crime thriller Watch List, co-financed by Bron Studios, received 11 Filipino Oscar nominations and won two.

Most recently, Rekhi turned to documentary filmmaking with The Reunited States, executive produced by Van Jones and Meghan McCain, which released on Amazon before premiering nationwide on PBS in 2022. Rekhi’s most recent project, Breaking the Code, tells the story of his father, Silicon Valley pioneer Kanwal Rekhi, co-founder of Excelan and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), chronicling his journey from Kanpur, India, to becoming a mentor to generations of entrepreneurs.