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In 2019, Rao's first feature film, Gantumoote was up for a world premiere at New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) where it won the "Best Screenplay" award. An intense coming off age, high school drama set in Bangalore in the 1990s, it's a relatable story of a sixteen-year-old girl and her subtle journey from the life that she thinks exists just like in the movies to the actual life that unravels to her. A tale of struggles with understanding herself, the changing world, educational pressures, bullying, competition over marks – all of it wrapped up in transcending journey of first love.

In 2018, Astu Studios released a travel short film Love Leh’tter starring Roopa Rao, written and directed by Surya Vasishta. Rao co-founded an independent production house, Ameyukti Studios, with a friend in 2018.

After The Other Love Story, in 2017 Rao wrote and directed BFF (Breath Friend Forever), a short film where a 7 year old, after learning about trees in class, tries to understand the importance of trees. The film was an official selection in Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and got screened at Ireland National Film Body in Kids Section.

The Other Love Story, a love story between two young girls, came on air in 27 August 2016. The first season consists 12 episodes. Set in the 1990s of Bangalore, The Other Love Story, starring Spoorthi Gumaste and Shweta Gupta, explored the journey of two young women in love.

Rao has won "Best Director" award at NYC Web Fest 2016 and "Best Story" award at TO Web Fest 2017. The Other Love Story has a total of 3 wins and 7 nominations from various National and International Film Festivals.

Later, in 2015, she decided to work on it herself. Since the central theme of the story is a taboo topic in India, she had difficulties finding producers for her project and turned to Wishberry, a crowd funding platform to raise an amount of Rs 4 lakh.

Roopa Rao (born May 18, 1981) is an independent Indian film-maker from Bangalore. She is the writer and director of India's first same-sex love story web series, The Other Love Story (2016). Rao is also known for directing critically-acclaimed Kannada film Gantumoote (2019).