Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
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YG20
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YG20_Agha_0
Sindha Agha
Director & Writer
Hometown: Urbana, United StatesCurrent City: Los Angeles, United States & London, United Kingdom
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Sindha Agha is an Emmy-nominated director, writer and visual artist known for her viral, vibrant work such as HOW TO BE A PERSON for CHANNEL 4 and THE PRINCIPLES OF PLEASURE for NETFLIX.
Sindha kicked off her career by writing & directing BIRTH CONTROL YOUR OWN ADVENTURE for THE NEW YORK TIMES, which quickly reached 12.5 million organic views, was nominated for a 2019 News & Documentary Emmy and accepted into Tribeca and Palm Springs Film Festivals as a part of their official selection.
Sindha has since been awarded two separate Sundance Institute fellowships (Ignite & New Voices), won the Cannes Lions Gold Young Director Award, won 'Best Episodic' at Tribeca X, directed two seasons of her series BODY LANGUAGE for BBC THREE, contributed to RADIOLAB, THE NEW YORKER, VOX and THE ATLANTIC, created the series TWENTY TEN TWENTY-FIVE for the ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS and the MELLON FOUNDATION and directed a short film for THE WELLCOME TRUST. She is currently in production with ITVS on her latest documentary EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOWHERE TO GO, about the psychology of climate change.
Sindha has lectured at universities including MIT, UC BERKELEY and NYU and her work is included in the curricula of both film programs & medical schools worldwide.
Before her career in film, Sindha worked in Silicon Valley in food biotech and studied political economy at the University of Illinois. She also won some poetry award in 5th grade and, to her father, this is her life's crowning achievement and still warrants a mention.
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