Prithi Gowda grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and spent summers in Bangalore, India. She moved to New York City at seventeen to study drawing. Worked as a motion graphic designer for a Detroit News station and eventually returned to New York to study film at NYU. Her short thesis film Televisnu premiered at SXSW and was a Wasserman Finalist at NYU’s First Run Film Festival in 2011. The film also received a grant from the National Board of Review. Prithi lives in New York City and works as a filmmaker and graphic designer. She has produced online spots for Nike and women’s wear designer Doo.Ri.