April 2025 - An upcoming discussion at Science & Justice Research Center of University of California, Santa Cruz. More here.
January 2025 - Mentoring at BAVC Media. (Bay Area Video Coalition)
December, 2024 - Vaishali has boarded the producing team of BAPSI, a doc feature in progress about the iconic novelist Bapsi Sidhwa. More here.
September 2024 - Give It A Shot is selected for impact training by Collective Lens. Read more here.
March 2024 - For Women’s History Month, Vaishali is honored to be on BGDM’s list of female filmmakers of color to look out for. More here.
December 2023 - Bitchitra Collective gets featured in Money Control. Vaishali is a proud co founder.
April 2023 - Ongoing doc ‘Persis' receives the NYC Women’s Fund Award. More here.
February 2023 - Give it a Shot is headed to the prestigious CPH:FORUM for pitching.
December 2022 - Vaishali is honored to be among 28 women from Women Make Movies awarded a New York State Council on the Arts grant 2023 for her ongoing feature doc Give it a Shot. Announcement here.
November 2022 - Vaishali is thrilled to be a Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency Program Fellow for 2023.
October 15, 2022 - Vaishali will be a panelist at Indiaspora’s 10th Anniversary in San Jose, with filmmakers Mridu Chandra, Nisha Pahuja, Rashaana Shah and Mauktik Kulkarni. Exploring “how documentaries craft collective narratives.” More here.
August 1, 2022 - Indiewire highlights Vaishali’s ongoing feature Give It a Shot among selected films at Gotham Film Week’s Spotlight on Documentaries. More here.
June 14, 2022 - Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary receives 2 year unrestricted operational grant from Color Congress. Vaishali is proud to be a founding member here. Read more here!
May 26, 2022 - Village Voice icon Michael Musto mentions one of Vaishali’s ongoing films (PERSIS) in this on-brand Michael Musto article!
March 17, 2022 - Vaishali Sinha has been selected as a recipient of Firelight Media’s Spark Fund, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP.) More here.
November 28th, 2021 - Catch Vaishali’s double features, and convo on surrogacy with filmmaker Surabhi Sharma and queer activist Rituparna Borah at Kolkata’s Dialogues Film Festival. Details here.
November 15, 2021 - Vaishali is honored to have juried for Documentary film awards at Fayetteville Film Festival with Marlene McCurtis and Ramey Newell. Best Documentary: The Neutral Ground. Best Documentary Short: There Was Nobody Here We Knew. More here.
October 27, 2021 - Co founded by Vaishali and multiple members, Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary announce the inaugural Artist Sustenance Grant recipients. Learn more here.
August 23, 2021 - Ask the Sexpert gets mentioned at this Hot Docs webinar as one of their most successful Forum titles with a South Asian story. (At min 54:54)
July 30, 2021 - Vaishali is honored to be Mentor at Video Consortium’s 2021 Sony Mentorship Program.
June 12, 2021 - Acclaimed filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala and actor/producer Farah Bala join Vaishali for a chat over her ongoing film PERSIS. More here.
April 14, 2021 - Hot Docs Deal Maker selects 32 projects including GIVE IT A SHOT, an ongoing film by Vaishali. Link here.
April 13, 2021 - Guest Speaker at NYU. Class: “Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking II.” Professor: Rebecca Haimowitz.
April 3, 2021 - Catch Vaishali on a panel at Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival with Tyler H. Walk, Inney Prakash, Jaccii Faris and Kyle Mahaney. Link here.
March, 2021 - Vaishali receives support from Studio IX Mother Project for her film on the Late Persis Khambatta.
December 30, 2020 - Vaishali writes in Firstpost on the passing of Dr. Mahinder Watsa, central subject of Ask the Sexpert.
March 11, 2020 - Catch Vaishali on ADOC’s Ask Me Anything on Zoom to discuss filmmaker POV in navigating Public Television.
January - December 2020 - Vaishali is honored to be a directing mentor at Firelight Media’s doclab where she’s also an alumna.
June 14-21, 2019, Flaherty Seminar - Vaishali Sinha invited as a Firelight Media, Flaherty Seminar Fellow. Colgate University, NY. More here.
March 24, 2019, Film Forum - Panelist at post screening discussions for Roll Red Roll, feature documentary by Nancy Schwartzman. More here
March 21, 2019, Open Society Foundation - Vaishali in Conversation with author Sohaila Abdulali. New York, NY. More here
March 2018, Film Forum - Vaishali to moderate post screening discussion of Nancy Schwartzman’s film Roll Red Roll. More here.
For past events refer to: www.askthesexpertmovie.com and www.madeinindiamovie.com