A child of immigrant parents, Shilpi Roy spent her childhood in North Carolina. She attended Vanderbilt University where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship while majoring in Psychology and Economics with a Film Studies minor. It was in her senior year at Vanderbilt that Roy realized that film was her lifelong dream. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles and became a producer’s assistant for Warren Littlefield, the former president of NBC. She also had the opportunity to work with industry giants such as Joel Wyman (writer of The Mexican) and Thomas Carter (director of Save the Last Dance). Roy then attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts for an MFA in Production. While there, Roy was awarded the prestigious Annenberg Fellowship. Roy hopes that her USC thesis film The Indian & the Samurai (a comedy about an Indian boy who wants to be a samurai) will be the stepping-stone to completing her first independent feature as a writer/director.