Jannat Gargi

Producer, Director

Jannat Gargi is an award-winning creative producer and film executive. Prior to joining Westbrook Inc., as Senior Vice President of Documentaries, she was Vice President of Documentaries for VICE Studios overseeing development for a slate of premium documentaries and series including ESPN's 30 For 30 series about the American Gladiators and Executive Producer of three time Academy Award nominated documentary FLEE (2022).

Prior to VICE Studios, Gargi served as Head of Documentary Films for Vulcan Productions where she developed and produced a wide range of acclaimed, cause-based documentary films including the Academy Award Nominated documentary and BAFTA winning Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (2022), Academy Award Nominated short documentary, Lead Me Home (2022), Master of Light, Best Documentary Prize winner SXSW (2022), Academy Award nominated short documentary, Hunger Ward (2021), and Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning Body Team 12 (2016). In her work as an independent producer, Gargi co-executive produced the Academy Award nominated short documentary Knife Skills (2018) and produced the Emmy nominated feature documentary CIRCO (2010).

Gargi is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS), the Producer's Guild of America (PGA), serves on the Board of Directors for Washington FilmWorks and is the Co-Chair of The Redford Center, a non-profit that harnesses the power of media to engage people and galvanize environmental action.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids2004
  • Taxi to the Dark Side
    Taxi to the Dark Side2007
  • Anvil: The Story of Anvil
    Anvil: The Story of Anvil2008
  • Waste Land
    Waste Land2010
  • No End in Sight
    No End in Sight2007
  • Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
    Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place2011
  • Trumbo
    Trumbo2007
  • East of the Mountains
    East of the Mountains2021
  • Freeheld
    Freeheld2007
  • Hood River
    Hood River2021
  • Anonymous Sister
    Anonymous Sister2021

Known For

  • Jesus Camp
    Jesus Camp2006
  • Anvil: The Story of Anvil
    Anvil: The Story of Anvil2008
  • Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids2004
  • No End in Sight
    No End in Sight2007
  • Murder Among the Mormons
    Murder Among the Mormons3 episodes
  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006
  • The Weather Underground
    The Weather Underground2002
  • Waste Land
    Waste Land2010
  • Iraq in Fragments
    Iraq in Fragments2006
  • Street Fight
    Street Fight2005
  • East of the Mountains
    East of the Mountains2021
  • The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers2009
  • We Live in Public
    We Live in Public2009
  • Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
    Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place2011
  • The Boys of Baraka
    The Boys of Baraka2005
  • Ballets Russes
    Ballets Russes2005
  • Trumbo
    Trumbo2007
  • The Reason I Jump
    The Reason I Jump2020
  • Be Here to Love Me
    Be Here to Love Me2004
  • Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience2007

Filmography

2026
2023
2022
Lift · as Executive Producer
2022
Master of Light · as Executive Producer
2022
Summer of Soul · as Executive Producer
2021
Lead Me Home · as Executive Producer
2021
Anonymous Sister · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
2021
East of the Mountains · as Co-ProducerOn Plex
2021
Hood River · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
2021
Black Woodstock · as Executive Producer
2021
2020
Hunger Ward · as Executive Producer
2020
Youth v Gov · as Executive Producer
2020
The Reason I Jump · as Executive Producer
2018
Ghost Fleet · as Executive Producer
2018
2017
Step · as Consulting Producer
2014
2010
2009
30 for 30 · as Executive Producer
2006
2005
1988
1988