Atur

Sam is a documentary filmmaker, focused on observational and character led narratives. Often taking a mixed media approach, he explores the grey zone between artifice and reality through the use of textures and atmosphere.

Sam studied at University of the Arts, London, where he discovered documentary filmmaking. This became a way of engaging with both his Media and Cultural Studies degree and the world around him. As a person with ASD, filmmaking provided Sam with the opportunity to express himself through non-written and non-linear forms of commutation - and is an advocate for people with learning and developmental difficulties to have access to filmmaking.

Following his undergraduate degree he was selected as the UK representative for the Aristoteles Workshop in Romania, which fosters a new generation of creative documentary filmmakers from around the world, where he was introduced to directing documentary.

He then refined his skills further through a Masters in Documentary Film Directing at the University of Edinburgh. There he achieved a distinction for his film Atur, which premiered in 2024 at British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, receiving 6th place overall in the Audience Award competition.

He has since gone on to develop his own documentary projects, where he is seeking to deconstruct notions of Britishness and offer an opportunity to reimagine the British Isles.