- Web Links
- https://vaishalisinha.com/
Vaishali Sinha
(She/Her)
FounderCoast to Coast Films
Vaishali Sinha is the director/producer of award-winning feature documentaries Made in India and Ask the Sexpert and her latest film will be in theaters this fall 2026 titled Give It A Shot (Sandbox Films, ITVS.)
Full Bio
Vaishali Sinha (Director/Producer) is an award-winning director and producer of the feature documentaries Made in India (PBS) and Ask the Sexpert (PBS, Netflix) and Give It A Shot (Independent Lens.) Her work has earned numerous honors, including the Critics Choice Award in India, a Grierson nomination for Best Entertaining Film, and a Ridenhour Peace Prize nomination for Excellence in Truth-Telling. Made in India became a case study at Harvard Business School in a course on ethics, while Ask the Sexpert achieved wide distribution across major platforms, including Netflix India. Vaishali was also a development consultant for the Academy Award–winning short documentary Period. End of sentence. and is currently on the producing team for multiple projects. She is a past Fellow of Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and co-founder of Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary, a peer-driven support network. She has mentored emerging filmmakers at Firelight Media Doc Lab, Kartemquin Film’s Diverse Voices in Docs, BAVC, and the Video Consortium. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and a diploma in 16mm film production from The New School, New York. Vaishali lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their child.
- Professional Credits
- Made in India, Co Director/Producer
Ask the Sexpert, Director/Producer
Give It A Shot, Director/Producer
- Industry Awards
- Awards:
- Nominated for'Best Entertaining Film', Grierson Awards (for Ask the Sexpert)
- Winner, "Critics Choice" Best Documentary Feature: Power Brands Bollywood Journalist Awards, India
- Jury Award for Best Documentary, New Orleans Film Festival
- Winner, Best Documentary: Florida Film Festival
- Best of Fests, IDFA, Amsterdam
- Nominated for Ridenhour Peace Price for Excellence in Truth Telling
- Jury Award for Best Documentary, IndieMeme Film Festival
- Winner, Best Documentary, South Asian Film Festival of Montreal
- Winner, Best Documentary Feature, DC South Asian Film Festival
- Winner, Best Documentary Feature, Jagran Film Festival, India
- Winner, Ruth Landfield Award for films of artistic merit about or by women of courage, conviction and compassion - Fargo Film Festival
- Winner, Prism Award for Best Documentary Feature at the South Asian International Documentary Film Festival, Seattle.
- Winner, Best Documentary: San Francisco Intl Asian American Film Festival
Funding Awards from:
- MacArthur Foundation
- ITVS
- Sandbox Films
- Firelight Media
- NEH
- Gucci Tribeca Documentary fund
- The Fledgling Fund outreach and production grant
- Chicken & Egg Pictures 'I believe in you' grant
- NYSCA
- CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) grant
- The Playboy Foundation grant
