[2][3][4] Siddharth Sinha was born in 1978 in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, and moved to Delhi at a young age.
He made his debut with the 10-minute docu-fiction Rangbela (2005), screened at the 2006 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam In 2006, the 2006 Berlinale Talent Campus selected him in the director’s batch on the basis of his one-minute preview to a projected documentary, subsequently his graduation short film, Udedh Bun (Un-ravel), a coming of age story of a young boy in an Indian village while taking care of his bedridden mother, which he also wrote.
This went on to win the Silver Bear at 58th Berlin International Film Festival 2008.
He was invited as a jury member to 'Noor de lijk film festival' in Netherlands.
Recently, he was invited as an honorary member in the selection committee at Mumbai film festival 2009.