Ragini Bhasin is a South Asian writer and director based in Los Angeles, born and raised in India. A graduate of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, she is drawn to intimate, everyday thrillers that center on women and children.

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Her short films have screened at numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals, with two recent works premiering at Palm Springs International ShortFest and another at the BFI London Film Festival. Her films have been featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick and on Short of the Week, and distributed by PBS, Tubi, ARTE, ShortsTV, Argo, and The Wrap’s ShortList Film Festival.

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Ragini is the recipient of the Meredith MacRae Memorial Award from Women in Film and was selected as a BAFTA Newcomer (2021–2024). She won the 2022 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge presented by CAPE and Janet Yang Productions, was a Directing Fellow in Film Independent’s Project Involve (2023), and is a director in the AFI DWW+ Class of 2026. Her feature script was supported by Cine Qua Non Lab in 2025.

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She is currently developing her debut feature, a domestic thriller set in New Delhi about a sixteen-year-old compulsive liar who returns to her single dad after disappearing for five days, telling a version of events that hides a darker truth.