Vishnu Sinha is an Indian filmmaker living in New York City. He has 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 Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, Vishnu produced, wrote, and acted in award-winning plays before transitioning to film. At 22, he was the youngest of 10 selected for the Serendipity Screenwriting Lab under Mahesh Dattani. His ad-campaign for Floh Tampons was featured on MadOverMarketing and received over 1 million views. His narrative short film, ‘One by Two’ received acclaim at several festivals including Short & Sweet and the India Habitat Film Festival.

Vishnu has written for ‘The Royals’, a Netflix India original romantic-comedy series that is in post-production and will release in 2024. He has taught screenwriting as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia and as the Lead Instructor at QueerFrames, India’s first queer-focused screenwriting lab funded by Netflix. His coming of age short film, Strawberry Cream is on the festival circuit 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.