Vinay Shukla (documentary filmmaker)

Vinay Shukla is an Indian Director, best known for his documentaries An Insignificant Man and While We Watched.

Career
Vinay started his career as an assistant director for the movie Victory (movie). His first short movie was titled Bureaucracy Sonata, set during the Emergency in India in 1975.

In 2012, Vinay started working on the idea of An Insignificant Man with Khushboo Ranka. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 followed by a theatrical release in India in November 2017.

In 2022, Vinay released While We Watched profiling NDTV's Ravish Kumar's journalistic independence against the backdrop of general media bias in India. The shooting itself took 2 years. The film won the Amplify voices award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Busan cinephile award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival and the Peabody award in 2023.