Sindha Agha

Sindha Agha is a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated director & writer working in film & TV.

Sindha’s first documentary, "Birth Control Your Own Adventure" for The New York Times, was nominated for an Emmy and went viral with 12.5 million views. Her first narrative project, the short-form comedy anthology “How to Be a Person” for Channel 4, won a BAFTA.

Sindha is the recipient of two Sundance Institute fellowships, has won the Cannes Lions Gold Young Director Award, wrote & co-executive produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “The Principles of Pleasure,” directed two seasons of her short-form series “Body Language” for BBC Three and contributed to Radiolab, The New Yorker, Vox and The Atlantic. She has guest lectured at universities including MIT, UC Berkeley and NYU.

Sindha is currently in development on her first TV series with Boffola Pictures and BBC Comedy.

POETRY HELPED MY HEART SURVIVE

THE DESIRE TO OWN NOTHING

• The New York Times — Ways to Read, Write, Teach and Learn Poetry

• The New York Times — Five Short Films by Women, About Women

• The New York Times — 15 Short Films Worth Your Time

• The Atlantic Selects — Sindha Agha

• Shots — Sindha Agha on how to make a YDA-winning series

• Creative Review — The visceral visuals of Sindha Agha

• Video Consortium — Sindha Agha, Nonfiction Video’s New Frontier

• AdWeek — Ad of the Day: New BBC Series Sheds Light on Women Suffering Through Pain in Silence

• Radiolab — Sex Ed: What Are Periods? feat. Sindha Agha

• Communication Arts — Sindha Agha: Filmmaking Against Expectations

• The Advocate — 14 Female Filmmakers Showed #TimesUp at Sundance

• Director’s Notes — Feature