Terry Rietta is a writer-director whose work spans commercials, branded entertainment, television, feature film, and graphic novels. As a commercial director, he is known for cinematic visuals, tonal precision, distinctive casting, and an instinct for offbeat humor. As a screenwriter, he is drawn to darkly comic dramas about the American Dream's fine print.

His feature script It Gets Worse was a quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and is currently a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival. His pilot No Saints in Reno was a finalist at the Nashville Film Festival, and his pilot Gods of Iowa was a Top 3 Finalist in Nantucket Film Festival and is a currently a finalist at the Nashville Film Festival. Terry lives in Santa Monica.