Biography

Terrie Samundra is the Director & Screenwriter of the Netflix Original film "Kaali Khuhi" (2020). She has written and directed many short films which have all played to strong festival runs and screened internationally, including "Kunjo", which garnered many awards and was a recipient of a National Geographic Grant and a Princess Grace Award. Her most recent short, "Extinction Story Origin Story" premiered at New York's Anthology Film Archive in May 2024. Samundra has also directed music videos and a national commercial campaign for Planned Parenthood. She is an alumna of Ryan Murphy's Half Initiative and is a current directing fellow of ReFrame Rise: a partnership between the Sundance Institute and Women in Film.

As a Screenwriter, Samundra is a Sundance Institute Screenwriter's Lab alumna (2013) and a SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting fellow (2018). She recently wrapped the writer's room for an undisclosed Netflix series and is currently in development with Suitable Pictures of one of her original series. She has written extensively with her creative partner David Walter Lech on both original work and adaptations. Samundra is a professor of screenwriting at the American Film Institute and an active member of the Writer's Guild of America.

Terrie grew up between a rural village in India, a small farming town in Missouri, and along the coast of California, informing her work as a multi-cultural storyteller. Samundra is the daughter of Punjabi author and poet, Shashi Samundra and is represented by the Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion. (06/2004)
- IMDb mini biography by: Terrie Samundra