Independent film is a change agent for advocacy, empowerment, and community. By creating stories that represent real-world issues and underrepresented narratives, storytelling can illuminate and alleviate simultaneously.

Designed by Preeti is that film.

About the film:

Designed by Preeti centers around a South Asian woman’s heroic journey of standing up to social stigmas, Domestic Violence, and recognizing her strength. The story unfolds through a South Asian immigrant lens but is universal to any Woman who has triumphantly left a toxic environment and reclaimed her power and happiness.

The film’s heroine Preeti travels from abuse to empowerment while rebuilding her relationship with her young daughter and bridging the generational gap through music and design. At the end of the film, both are transformed for the better. This is a story of resilience and relationships between an Immigrant Mother and an American Daughter of an Immigrant. 

For more information, visit the website Designed by Preeti

Film Impact Initiative:

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “In the United States, more than 10 million adults experience domestic violence annually. If each of these adults experienced only one incidence of violence, an adult in the US would experience violence every three seconds. However, because domestic violence is a pattern, many experiences repeated acts of abuse annually, so an incident of abuse happens far more frequently than every three seconds.”

There is an absolute need to raise awareness and advocate against Domestic Violence. Your support for this film ensures the film’s impact goal of community outreach and advocacy. 

Executive Producer Rashmi Rustagi has partnered with NARIKA and MAITRI to raise awareness about physical and emotional abuse. The goal is to launch community engagement to educate and prevent domestic violence. 

Your support for this film helps Independent cinema tell a story of reclamation and empowerment, a narrative for impact.

Statistics:

https://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/domestic-violence-statistics/

https://ncadv.org/

Our Team: 

GAYATRI EVERITT BAJPAI - Director

Gayatri Everitt Bajpai is a filmmaker based in Vancouver and Los Angeles. She earned her MFA in film production at UCLA where she won Director’s Spotlight Awards for two of her short films and produced a documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s live cinema project Distant Vision. For her thesis film, she directed part of an anthology feature executive produced by Jame Franco. Gayatri and her co-director Nirav Bhakta won HBO’s 2019 APA Visionaries with their short film Halwa which has garnered awards at Festivals around the world. 

RASHMI RUSTAGI - Writer

Born and raised in India, Rashmi focuses her effort on producing stories with social impact with the hope of moving audiences to shape social change. Passionate about telling stories to empower women, she has written and produced a few short films. Her film Unborn highlights female feticide in the Indian American communities and is streaming on Amazon Prime. Rashmi wrote Designed by Preeti to shed light on domestic violence and ultimately, help empower its victims.

WENDY MOULTON TATE - Co-Writer

Wendy is an LA Emmy award-winning producer and a finalist in Page International Screenwriting Competition, BlueCat, and Screencraft Family Friendly Screenwriting Competition. Wendy’s screenwriting journey took flight after her fascination with the OC Roller Girls inspired her to write the feature Derby Queen which placed her as a finalist in Launch Pad and Screencraft Comedy Feature Competitions and was recently optioned by Iris Indie. Her specialty is feature-length dramedies and pilots that feature comically flawed protagonists with a heart.

LINA LANSKY - Producer

Lina Lansky is an NYC-based freelancer working in all facets of the film industry as a First Assistant Director, Production Manager, and Producer. Her wide range of experience includes feature films, shorts, music videos, documentaries & commercially branded content. Some of her most recent producing work includes the short Don’t Pick Up starring Keith David & Kathryn Erbe, and the feature film Hungry starring Kim Coles. She is currently developing a historical biopic and will be releasing a podcast.

If donating by check, mail it to: 

(Please write Designed by Preeti in the memo line)

From The Heart Productions Inc

1013 Harbor Blvd #53

Oxnard, CA 93035

For more information about the film:

VISIT FILM WEBSITE- Designed by Preeti

FOR INQUIRIES AND CONTACT:

Rashmi Rustagi - [email protected]

Executive Producer, MahaDevi Productions.