Michael Singh

Writer, Producer, Director and co-Editor of “Valentino’s Ghost”

Michael grew up on the plains of the Punjab, and at the Woodstock boarding school in the Himalayas. He studied Indian history at The University of Chicago, and filmmaking at USC’s Division of Cinema-TV in Los Angeles.

As an actor on stage, he played Mr. Patel in the hit production of Trevor Griffith’s “Comedians” at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre, in Chicago.

He is now a Princeton, MA, based documentary filmmaker living on a Colonial farm with his wife Joanna Lancaster.

His latest feature-length film, the award-winning documentary “Valentino’s Ghost: Why We Hate Arabs and Muslims,” has played in over 100 countries. Its original 2013 version made its world premiere at La Biennale, (The Venice Film Festival), where it received a standing ovation.

It is designated a New York Times CRITICS’ PICK and was called “thrilling” by The Village Voice.

And The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs named it “the decade’s most important film.”(Mar/Apr 2016).

Michael was Senior Producer/Writer for Discovery’s Health channel’s reality TV series “Chicago’s Lifeline,” where his episodes won national media awards for Best Science Series during both the years he helmed the series.

He is currently completing “Surviving the Delhi Massacre,” his personal eyewitness account of the slaughter of Sikhs in 1984, which he audio-recorded. He is also directing a bio-pic on his childhood friend, the Bollywood actor Tom Alter.