Rippin Sindher is a visionary multi-hyphenate who blends her sociology background and POV as a Punjabi-Sikh woman with a passion for cinema to create stories for social change.

Rippin Sindher is a fearless filmmaker who blends sociology with cinema to ignite conversations on justice and identity. Raised in the farmlands of California before attending UCLA, she carved an unconventional path—starting in PR, managing for the Directors Guild of America, and serving as a Senior Creative Director for global agencies—before launching her career as a writer/director/producer. Her work is bold, unflinching, and deeply personal, blending her perspective as a Punjabi-Sikh woman with a passion for stories that drive social change.

A two-time Bank of America Big Tell Award recipient, Rippin earned Congressional recognition for SEVA, her anti-hate documentary on Sikhs in America, followed by ZONE, which exposed California’s legacy of redlining. On the narrative side, her festival-winning shorts Broken Drawer and The Hideout dissect complex relationships. In 2023, she won the Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge with CAPE and Janet Yang Productions for FLIGHT 182, a gripping true crime drama executive produced by Emmy® winner Archie Panjabi. The film earned Best Narrative Short at ImagineThis, Best Short Honorable Mention at iSAFF, was nominated at the Oscar-qualifying Tasveer Film Festival, and led to her selection as a directing fellow and production consultant on S.W.A.T. for Paramount CBS.

Rippin’s momentum in TV directing includes directing intensives on Criminal Minds: Evolution (with Bethany Rooney), Ryan Murphy’s Ratched for Netflix, and being a finalist for the Sony Directing Program and Shondaland x SeriesFest. Her feature adaptation of FLIGHT 182 is a finalist for the Sundance Collab Cultural Impact Residency, further cementing her voice in cinematic storytelling. Previously she adapted The Village Bride of Beverly Hills into a feature script.

Beyond the screen, Rippin has directed sold-out theatre productions, including An Evening Repast (on India’s Partition) at the historic Morgan-Wixson Theatre and Pyar aur Coffee about interracial relationships for the Long Beach Shakespeare Company. She was elected Vice President of the RISE Council (Dan Lin’s accelerator for POC creators) and honored with the UCLA Women Leaders Award for her powerful storytelling and commitment to social justice. She also founded KAUR Creative to mentor teen girls and co-founded Sindherella Co. She is represented by RAIN.