Vineesha Arora-Sarin

Vineesha Arora Sarin is an LA-based filmmaker who had been working in India's media industry since 2000. Beginning with her acting debut in the 2003 feature film Supari, she went on to star in numerous Mumbai stage productions. In 2005, Vineesha transitioned to writing and producing and wrote her passion project - The End of Karma - a crime drama series - that she is setting up for production in the U.S. and Italy in 2020. This project prompted her to move to LA from Mumbai, after husband and collaborator Amit Sarin (a known television actor in India) and herself, backed by a Dubai-based fund, established a film financing company, Roaming Rickshaw Films (RRF) in 2018. Vineesha established their production company, NY Studios, in 2009 where she developed and directed several advertising campaigns in locations throughout the world, for a list of international clients. Arora Sarin imagined, developed and produced a star-studded stage show called "Heartthrobs," which debuted to a sold-out audience of 30,000 at Toronto's Rogers Center. "Heartthrobs" brought together a cast of Indian television stars for the first time ever in a Bollywood-style ticketed concert, marking the first time such a stage show was produced overseas with Indian television actors. Vineesha is also set to produce her first star-studded Hollywood feature, Tiger Heart, to be filmed in the Fall of 2020, directed by veteran filmmaker Dwight Little, along with Amit and their partners under RRF and NY Studios. Vineesha made her debut in directing with an award-winning short film Come Back to Me (2020), which she also wrote and produced, under her new media/ digital company, Lady With a Hat Productions [US], followed by several other award-winning shorts. Vineesha is also actively involved in pushing forward many social causes and is a board member of a non-profit organization - Equal Footing - whose purpose is to help bring female filmmakers and other underdogs into the film industry by aiding them in telling their stories.