Rippin Sindher
Rippin Sindher is a multi-hyphenated Punjabi-American creator who has written, directed, and produced award-winning films rooted in social impact. She won the 2024 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge with CAPE and Janet Yang Productions for FLIGHT 182, executive produced by Archie Panjabi. Among her body of work, Rippin has written and directed festival-winning films Broken Drawer, The Hideout, and the Congressionally recognized anti-hate documentary SEVA. She is a two-time recipient of The Big Tell Award and, in 2023, directed ZONE, about redlining. Most recently, she won the BraveMaker PitchFest Award for her psychological thriller Trapped.
In television, Rippin was the first directing fellow on Ratched for the Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative, shadowed and consulted on a Sikh-centered episode of S.W.A.T. for Paramount/CBS, and was invited into a directing intensive on Criminal Minds: Evolution under veteran director Bethany Rooney. She is also part of Dan Lin’s RISE accelerator for POC creators, an alum of the Shondaland Directing Program, a finalist for the Sony Diverse Directors Program and a recent finalist for the Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. For the theatre, Rippin directed Pyar aur Coffee and An Evening Repast. Prior to filmmaking, she managed top-level programming for directors and directors’ teams at the Directors Guild of America and later served as a senior creative director for commercial agencies in Los Angeles and Europe. Rippin’s dedication to craft, coupled with her passion for transforming the world through story and her background in journalism and sociology, makes her a leading innovator. An advocate for social justice, she founded KAUR Creative to mentor young women and earned the UCLA Women Leaders Award for her dedication to social change.
