API producer on the future of social impact entertainment: Megha Kadakia

 Megha Kadakia is VP of Impact Media at Creative Visions, where she works with filmmakers and activists to develop, co-produce and finance social entertainment impact media. She also brings a unique blend of business experience, diversity, and artistic vision to independent filmmaking through her production company - Blue Velocity Pictures. Kadakia has produced the fiction features MISS INDIA AMERICA, RASPBERRY MAGIC, THE TIGER HUNTER, and HUMMINGBIRD. Kadakia is producing the documentary TEXAS, USA, which explores what it takes to build a new, hopeful vision for democracy against enormous odds. Recently, Kadakia co-founded the global media entertainment brand to empower young girls through animation, SUPER AMAZING PRINCESS HEROES.
She is the recipient of Sundance’s Creative Producing Lab, Sundance's Momentum Fellowship, Cannes' Producer's Fellow, Film Independent Producers Lab, and the Tribeca All-Access Program. In 2018, Kadakia presented a TEDX talk on Media and Diversity at UNC Chapel Hill.
Kadakia worked at Disney | ABC, Deloitte Consulting, and several film production organizations in the capacity of Business Development and Finance. She received an MBA from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in Biochemistry and Specialization in Business from UCLA.
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 Megha Kadakia is VP of Impact Media at Creative Visions, where she works with filmmakers and activists to develop, co-produce and finance social entertainment impact media. She also brings a unique blend of business experience, diversity, and artistic vision to independent filmmaking through her production company - Blue Velocity Pictures. Kadakia has produced the fiction features MISS INDIA AMERICA, RASPBERRY MAGIC, THE TIGER HUNTER, and HUMMINGBIRD. Kadakia is producing the documentary TEXAS, USA, which explores what it takes to build a new, hopeful vision for democracy against enormous odds. Recently, Kadakia co-founded the global media entertainment brand to empower young girls through animation, SUPER AMAZING PRINCESS HEROES.

She is the recipient of Sundance’s Creative Producing Lab, Sundance's Momentum Fellowship, Cannes' Producer's Fellow, Film Independent Producers Lab, and the Tribeca All-Access Program. In 2018, Kadakia presented a TEDX talk on Media and Diversity at UNC Chapel Hill.

Kadakia worked at Disney | ABC, Deloitte Consulting, and several film production organizations in the capacity of Business Development and Finance. She received an MBA from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in Biochemistry and Specialization in Business from UCLA.

https://twitter.com/thisiskaia 

Produced by Stuart W. Volkow P.G.A.

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