Vishnu Sinha is an Indian-born NYC-based filmmaker with an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University where he graduated with Honors, served as the Assistant Director of the Mike Hausman/Milos Forman Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), 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 (SRCC), University of Delhi, Vishnu produced, wrote, and acted in award-winning plays before transitioning to film. At 22, he was the youngest of 10 participants 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 Short+Sweet Hollywood, India Habitat, Edmonton International, and Long Distance, where it received the Jury Prize.

Vishnu has written for ‘The Royals’, the Netflix India original romantic-comedy series. He teaches screenwriting as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia and as the Lead Instructor at QueerFrames, South-Asia’s first screenwriting lab for queer filmmakers, supported by Netflix, Goethe-Institut, and Berlinale. His coming of age short film, Strawberry Cream is on the festival circuit and serves as a proof-of-concept for a feature film of the same name that is in development. He is currently developing a comedy TV series with an International Emmy-nominated production company. 

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