Sohil Vaidya is a writer, director and producer. His film Murmurs of the Jungle received the 70th National Film Award (Rajat Kamal/Silver Lotus), presented by the President of India, and the City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. His thesis film Difficult People won the Directors Guild of America Student Film Award. His other honors include Best Short Film at the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Film Bazaar, the Artistic Excellence Award at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival and the Leo Award at the Da Vinci Film Festival. His films have been selected for more than 100 festivals worldwide, including Rotterdam, Melbourne, Chicago, Raindance, the Indian Panorama at IFFI, Palm Springs and the New York Indian Film Festival.
His work has been distributed and screened by SBS Australia, PBS Rhode Island, ShortsTV, Omeleto, Viddsee and BhaDiPa. He is a BAFTA Newcomers Fellow (Los Angeles), and serves as lead programmer and jury member of the Smita Patil International Short Film Festival in Pune. He holds an MFA in Film and TV Directing from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he co-directed an episode of Samir, a Warner Bros.-funded project, and studied on the James Bridges Directing and Edward Thomas Troutner Cinematography scholarships.