Terrie Samundra is a Writer/Director who 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. Her debut feature, KAALI KHUHI, a Netflix Original Film, premiered on the platform in 2020. She is a current Sundance Institute + Women In Film ReFrame Rise Fellow, an alumna of the Sundance Institute’s International Screenwriter's Lab for her screenplay BETAMAX, co-written with David Walter Lech, and an alumna of the Sundance Women in Film Financing Lab.

Samundra is the Writer/Director of the short films KUNJO, ICE CREAM WALLAH, and A SHORT TALE OF XUAN, which have all played internationally and garnered numerous accolades. In making KUNJO, Samundra fulfilled one of her life’s goals by making a collaborative film in the village she was raised in Punjab, India. She has worked as a commercial director for Planned Parenthood as well as a music video director for Drag City Records.

Along with her creative partner, David Walter Lech, she has penned the screenplays KAALI KHUHI, BETAMAX, WOMAN ON THE HILL, WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY, and the adaptation TOWN BLOODY HALL (based on the Pennebaker documentary of the same name). They have also written pilots of the two episodic series THE BALLAD OF POOJA and THE BLOOD BELOW (Fox Screenwriter's Lab Finalist). Samundra has also adapted the one woman play ME, MY MOM, & SHARMILA with actor/creator Fawzia Mirza. They were awarded a SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Fellowship in 2018. 

Samundra has taught screenwriting at San Francisco State University, currently teaches at AFI. She is a current mentor for the Sundance BIPOC mentorship program and has worked as a creative writing instructor at CreateNow, an arts organization focused on mentorship and education for at risk homeless and foster youth. She is a Princess Grace Award recipient, a National Geographic All Roads Seed Grant recipient, and an active member of the Writer's Guild of America. She has recently wrapped the writers room of an undisclosed Netflix episodic series.

She is an avid comic book nerd, is passionate about genre films and is the daughter of Punjabi author and poet, Shashi Samundra.