Gingger shankar

Gingger Shankar is a filmmaker, composer, and the only female double violinist in the world. A frequent speaker for TED, championing girls’ education and empowerment, she has worked with First Lady Michelle Obama, Ava Duvernay, Stacey Abrams, AOC, New Georgia Project and more. She was chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces to Watch” and her multimedia project Himalaya Song, which addressed climate change, was named one of the “10 Best Music Films at Sundance” by Rolling Stone. She is the founder of Little Indian Girl Productions, with upcoming projects including the feature documentary Promises of Our Grandmothers (director/producer), which chronicles an indigenous resistance camp’s fight against the Line 3 pipeline, and Nari: The Women Behind A Music Revolution (director/producer), which is the unsung story of the women of the Shankar family - her mother and grandmother. She produced official 2018 Sundance Film Festival selection Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock as well as the 2020 album And She Could Be Next - a companion to the Ava DuVernay-executive produced docuseries - featuring Aloe Blacc, Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball, Saul Williams, and more. She wrote, directed, and produced multiple spots for South Asians for Biden ahead of the 2020 election and wrote the song “Promises of Our Grandmothers,” which was featured in the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit and was the inspiration for the corresponding documentary. Gingger is also co-founder of Naughty Horses Records, which releases music by dynamic women artists from around the world alongside the preservation of culturally vital global classical recordings, including many of the Shankar family records dating back to the 1930s.