Samina Saifee is a filmmaker and writer based in Brooklyn and LA. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied Film & TV Production.

She is a Sundance Building Bridges Fellow (2024), a Sundance Ignite Fellow (2024), and an Orchard Project Episodic Lab Fellow (2022). Her first short film, AMERIGIRL, is on NoBudge. Her second short, AYAT, starring Laith Nakli (Hulu’s RAMY, A24’s PROBLEMISTA), is currently in the festival circuit.

Her debut feature film, an expansion of her first short, has been selected for the Film Independent Producing Lab. In 2024, she assisted in the writers’ room for Riz Ahmed’s new Amazon Prime show. Currently, she is adapting an award-winning stage play for the screen.

As a fiction writer, she is working on her first novel as a Periplus Fellow under the mentorship of Zeyn Joukhadar.