page_title: Minoti Vaishnav
section_title: Film and Television career
hierarchical_section_title: Minoti Vaishnav / Film and Television career
caption_attribution_description: English: Promo photo of Minoti Vaishnav from "Mix It Up" (2015).
context_page_description: Minoti Vaishnav is an Indian–American screenwriter, songwriter, and entertainment producer. Born in Bombay, she moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19, leaving her family back in India. At 22 she produced her first album "The Fictional Truth", with her first single "Psychologist" getting several thousands of downloads online. In 2012 she graduated from California State University Northridge and released her second album "Secret Garden" in 2013.
  In spite of not being signed to a label, the music video for her single "So Will You" went semi-viral on YouTube with over 100,000 views and her songs have played on radio stations across the U.S, U.K, Canada, Singapore and Denmark. In 2015, she released her third album "Mix It Up".
  On the film and television front, Minoti got her start working as a producer and co-host on 17 episodes of a television review podcast called TV Weekly. She then worked for the International Documentary Association and on HBO's Emmy® nominated documentary American Winter. She wrote and produced projects such as R.I.P, 3 Orbs of Light and Being Independent.
context_section_description: Minoti's writing career officially started when she assisted with the script for the 28th Annual IDA Documentary Awards, held at the Director's Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles. Soon after, she landed her first producing and writing gig on the short film R.I.P (2012) for Lang Productions. She then worked in music licensing and composing on the award-winning documentary Let Them Eat Cake (2014), and wrote and produced the pilot for the show 3 Orbs of Light (2013) for PKM Images.
  In 2013, Minoti started Prophecy Girl Films where she wrote and produced films like Stones (2014) and Abducted (2016). The company is described as "a hybrid between a marketing company and a production company". Company services include script development, marketing, social media, public relations and on-site production for film, television, books, and music. Under Prophecy Girl Films, Minoti produced, developed and provided PR services for several independent films including Doris (Endless Media, LLC), Women Behind the Camera (Rafael Film, LLC), My Guardian Angel (Vigilants Entertainment), Wordless (EDA Films) and many others.
  Minoti then signed on to co-produce the digital documentary series Being Independent. Shot in Germany, the UK and the US, the series focuses on independent artists all over the world and the struggles they face as they try to make it. The series is co-produced by Erik McCall and Kitty Kalkbrenner. The series initially started out as a feature documentary, with limited funding. An IndieGoGo campaign to add funding to the project failed. In spite of this setback, a digital series was produced in 2015 and aired in Germany.
  In 2017, Minoti ventured into the world of mainstream television, working as an associate producer and later as a development producer on docu-series like Hunting Hitler (History Channel), JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald (History Channel), Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (Travel Channel), Mission Declassified (Travel Channel) and many others.
  Minoti is an alumna of the MSt in Creative Writing program at the University of Oxford and has written articles for documentary.org, R6S, IndieScene Magazine, and Verve Magazine. Additionally, Minoti has worked in digital distribution, editing and PR on novels like Sex and the Cyborg Goddess by Alexis Krasilovsky, Sima's Healthy Indulgence by Sima Cohen and Oubliette: A Forgotten Little Place by Vanta M. Black. She is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency and Echo Lake Entertainment.
caption: Minoti in a 2015 promo photo
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