Terrie Samundra movie list

Terrie Samundra is the Director & Screenwriter of the Netflix Original film "Kaali Khuhi," released internationally on October 30, 2020. She is also is the Writer-Director of the short films "Ice Cream Wallah," "Kunjo," and "A Short Tale of Xuan," and has worked as a commercial director on a national campaign for Planned Parenthood. Her films have screened in film festivals internationally, garnering many accolades. Samundra is a Sundance Institute Screenwriter's Lab alumna and a SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting fellow. She has written extensively with her creative partner David Walter Lech on the screenplays "Kaali Khuhi," "Betamax," (2013 Sundance Writer's Lab) and the episodic series "The Ballad of Pooja" and "The Blood Below." For hire, she wrote an adaptation of the D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus documentary, "Town Bloody Hall." Her 2018 SFFILM awarded screenplay "Me, My Mom and Sharmila' is a collaboration with Actor-Creator Fawzia Mirza. Terrie grew up between a rural village in India, a small farming town in Missouri, and along the coast of California. She is a National Geographic Grant recipient, a Princess Grace Award recipient, and an active member of the Writer's Guild of America. She's taught Screenwriting at SFSU and is the daughter of Punjabi author and poet, Shashi Samundra.