Gita Upmale is a Latvian born artist and filmmaker based in Bangalore, India since 2008. She is a graduate from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore where she completed her Undergraduate Professional Diploma in Digital Video Production and her Postgraduate Diploma in Film. While studying, she wrote and directed two fiction short films and was a sound recorder on multiple films by her peers. Her film, Barren Spaces, was the outcome of a year-long Professional Diploma Program during which she worked with the filmmaker, director Soudhamini S. Under Soudhamini's mentorship, Gita explored the idea of rhythm and emotion in Hindustani classical music and how it can translate to film language. In 2018 she worked as a sound mixer and sound designer for a non fiction film Kaggantu, directed by Ujjwal Utkarsh.
 
As a filmmaker, Gita is interested in the subtleties of relationships between people and the social and emotional backgrounds they are set against and how the past affects them. Her stories are drawn from meticulous observations of people and situations around her. She sees film language as an important tool for expressing mood and feeling. 

In 2023, Gita completed a non-fiction film Koknese, a fly on the wall poetic documentary about conversations amongst the elderly residents of Koknese, a small sleepy town in Latvia. It features glimpses of their past and current lives, memories and trauma from the mass deportation of 1949.

Working on this film was a rite of passage. A personal processing of the collective experience of deportations and occupation you grow up learning about. In the film, one of the characters, she recounts her experience of being deported to Siberia and says that she will forever remember that moment of the train leaving the station in Latvia.