Samina Saifee is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn and LA. She is a graduate of New York University’s Stern-Tisch Dual Degree Program where she studied film and business.
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 and was one of ten finalists for the 1497 Features 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.
