GOOD TALK WITH VAISHALI SINHA
Vaishali Sinha is the director/producer of award-winning feature-length documentary films MADE IN INDIA (PBS 2012, Kanopy) and ASK THE SEXPERT (PBS World, Netflix India, GOOD DOCS). She was the development consultant for the Academy Award winning documentary PERIOD. END. OF. SENTENCE. Vaishali is currently working on her third feature documentary GIVE IT A SHOT (Sandbox Films). She is also a founder of Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women and non binary filmmakers in documentary.
Vaishali is Rockefeller Institute's Bellagio Residency Program Fellow for their gender equality track. Her films have won festival awards, a Critics Choice Award in India, a Grierson Award nomination for Best Entertaining Film, and a Ridenhour Peace Prize Nomination for Excellence in Truth-Telling. Vaishali's film MADE IN INDIA was a case study at Harvard Business School for a class on ethics. She has a bachelor’s in physics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and received a film diploma from the New School University in NYC, where she lives with her husband Fred Lassen, a Broadway music director, and their son Luca.