Vishnu Sinha

Vishnu Sinha is an Indian-born NYC-based filmmaker with an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University where he graduated with Honors and his work received the Film Scholarship, the Leone Family Film Grant, the Emerging Filmmakers Grant, the Prism Foundation Grant, a Teaching Fellowship, and the Geoffrey Quan Launch Fund Award.

After serving as the President of the Dramatics Society at University of Delhi, Vishnu produced, wrote, and acted in award-winning plays before transitioning to film. At 22, he was the youngest participant at the Serendipity Screenwriting Lab and his ad-campaign for Floh was featured on MadOverMarketing and received over 1 million views. His narrative short film One by Two received acclaim at several festivals like Short & Sweet and India Habitat Film Festival.

Vishnu has written for The Royals, a Netflix India original romantic-comedy series that is in post-production. He teaches screenwriting at Columbia and QueerFrames, India’s first queer-focused screenwriting lab. His coming of age short film, Strawberry Cream is in festivals and serves as a proof-of-concept for a feature film that is currently in development.

Raised by three women of three different generations, his stories revolve around gender, sexuality, family, friendship, and class.