Upcoming Works
Sam & Sasha
2024 (Writer/Director)
Sam is an experimental filmmaker, who has returned to live in her childhood home three years after her parents passing. Sasha is the twelve year old who lives at the farm across the field.
Sam & Sasha is a collection of four meditative short films, one per season, that watches the friendship between these two people slowly grow, as the seasons change.
Autumn & Winter have been filmed, and the crew is currently preparing to film Spring, this May. This collection acts as a prequel to the feature film (below) Windmill Hill.
Windmill Hill
2025 (Writer/Director)
Two sisters reconcile several years after their parents' death, moving through memories of the past while discovering the unreliability of these memories, against the backdrop of their childhood home-- but Katharine's plan to sell the house threatens their fragile relationship. Written by Sam and his sister, Katharine, Initial photography is planned to begin in November, 2024.
Finished Works
A Beautiful and Violent Place
2020 (Writer/Director)
In this Neo-American western, Joel returns home to avenge the death of his first love. Searching for retribution in the decaying landscape of his childhood, he soon learns that closure cannot be found through acts of violence.
Need a Hand?
2018 (Writer/Director)
'Need a Hand?' is a candid conversation about disability and how it effects both the people who have them and the people around them.
The short is a personal documentary that links these conversations with animations and home movies, to create something greater than the sum of their parts. (Running time: 12 min)
Morning Stars
2017 (Writer/Director)
A father is faced with an impossible decision, after a deal with the devil comes back to haunt him. (Running time: 3 min, 16mm)
Hope Springs
2017 (Writer/Director)
A man has been drifting through space in an escape pod for four months. He has held onto his sanity by living in his memories. But As food runs out, how long can love sustain him? (Running time: 4:30 min)
The Door
2017 (Writer/Director)
In this silent short film, three boys discover a door in the middle of the woods. Will they venture through, and find out what is on the other side? (Running time: 3:00 min, 16mm B&W)
Anthropic
2016 (Writer/Director)
In this slow burn sci-fi thriller, a woman finds herself imprisoned by an alien species, in a place out of time. Held at an idyllic lake-front cabin; during the day, she is completely unaware of her abductors, only once the sun sets, does her reality set in. (Running time: 12 min)
Me, My Dad, & You
2012 (Writer/Director)
Me, My Dad, & You is my first ever personal documentary focusing on my arm. It was made while attending the New School, under the tutelage of the personal Documentarian Caveh Zahedi.
The film is broken into three separate sections: home movies, found footage, and animation.
BIO
Sam is an award-winning filmmaker who splits his time between New York, Vermont, and Alabama. Sam's first job in film was editing for a local video production company, as an after school job in high school. It was called Seventh Generation Productions. Once during an interview, a man explained to the team that 'seventh generation' referred to a joint that had been rolled with the roach of a previous joint in the middle, seven times over. His boss didn't know that.
Since then, Sam has worked as a writer, director, editor and producer on multiple short films, as well as finishing multiple feature-length scripts. In 2019, he graduated from the London Film School with an MFA in filmmaking. In 2021, his graduation film premiered in competition at the Austin Film Festival, and went on to play around the country and win multiple festival awards.