Neha Shastry is an Indian American film director and producer whose work focuses on the intersection of power, justice and pop culture.

Her work has been recognized with an Emmy, a duPont Award, and many other accolades. Over the past decade, she has made films about some of the most influential figures in our culture.

Her feature documentary The Act of Dreaming (2025) is an all-vérité portrait of three families from different corners of the world as they navigate their first year in the United States. The film is currently making the rounds at film festivals, and won the Boundary Breaker Award at the Buffalo International Film Festival.

Neha is currently directing a limited series for Netflix, and she is making a short documentary with Sandbox Films.

Her other directing credits include the series The Murdochs: Empire of Influence (2022), which was named one of the best documentaries of 2022 by The New Yorker. She also made two films for the MGM+ series The Ruling Class (2023), one examining Betsy DeVos, and the other, Peter Thiel.

Her episode about the wealth gap for Netflix's What's Next with Bill Gates (2024) earned her an Emmy nomination, and was praised by The New York Times. In it, she took the Microsoft founder on a journey of self-interrogation about the impact his wealth has had on the world, and whether he could stand to give more away.

As a producer, Neha worked on All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020), which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. She also produced Convergence (2022) and Harry & Meghan for Netflix.

From 2021–2022, Neha was selected to participate in Netflix's inaugural Nonfiction Directing Fellowship, which was an incubator for upcoming directors of color.

She started her career at Vice News, and was part of the founding team that built the brand into the juggernaut it became. Just a few months into the job, Neha found herself producing their critically acclaimed coverage of Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine — work that earned her an Emmy and a duPont Award. She later became a tech reporter and producer for CNN, where she gained her appetite for reporting about people in power. Eventually, she started to feel burnt out from the world of journalism, so she set her sights on filmmaking, and hasn't looked back.

Neha is represented by CAA and by Michelle Chang at Ramo Law.