About Michael Singh

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Singh was raised in India, and finished his studies at The University of Chicago, and at USC's film school. Along with making documentary films full-time in Los Angeles, he also mentors film students at Chapman University's Dodge film school, where he has also occasionally taught film production and editing. He has made several award-winning Sikh-centric films, as well as Valentino's Ghost, about media images of Arabs and Muslims. Valentino's Ghost is designated a Critics' Pick by The New York Times. It made its world premiere at The Venice Film Festival, Italy, where it received a standing ovation. Michael is currently seeking funding for his next project, a one-hour documentary on the massacre of Sikhs outside the Rakab Ganj Gurudwara in 1984, a massacre of which he was an eye witness. Titled Riding the Tiger, it will be the first autobiographical eye-witness film of the traumatic events of 1984.