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.

After growing up in a raisin farm town and attending UCLA, she began her career in public relations and management at the DGA, later becoming a Senior Creative Director for global commercial agencies before pursuing her dream as an independent artist.

She is a two-time recipient of the Bank of America Big Tell Film Award, which backed her anti-hate documentary SEVA, earning special Congressional recognition. She followed with ZONE, a film about the redlining history of Central California. On the narrative front, Rippin wrote, directed and produced Broken Drawer and The Hideout — both won multiple festival awards and landed her a feature film writing assignment to adapt The Village Bride of Beverly Hills. In 2023, she won the Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge with CAPE and Janet Yang Productions for FLIGHT 182 (Executive Produced by Emmy® winner Archie Panjabi), which earned Best Short Honorable Mention at iSAFF and a nomination at the Oscar-qualifying Tasveer. This led to Rippin being selected as a directing fellow and production consultant on S.W.A.T. and previously, joining a directing intensive for Criminal Minds and being the first directing fellow on Ryan Murphy’s Ratched for Netflix.

A finalist for the Sony Director’s Program, Shondaland x SeriesFest, Sundance New Voices Lab, AFI’s DWW+, Lena Waithe’s Rising Voices fellowship and AICP’s DGA/CDDP Program, Rippin has led global creative campaigns for brands like Amazon, Nike, and Etsy, and has pitched and developed original TV pilots. For the stage, Rippin directed sold-out shows of An Evening Repast and Pyar Aur Coffee. Rippin is Vice President of RISE, Dan Lin’s accelerator for POC creators, and was awarded the UCLA Women Leaders Award for her boundless creativity and social justice work. In 2019, she founded KAUR Creative to mentor teen girls and co-founded Sindherella Co. with her brother Gurinder Sindher. She is represented by RAIN.