Sam Vinal is an award-winning filmmaker who grew up south of Boston on occupied Wampanoag Land. He now lives in Los Angeles on Tongva Land and directs documentaries made in partnership with social movements. These bold works are housed in the Los Angeles based production company he manages called Mutual Aid Media, an independent entity for creativity and speaking truth to power through film. Sam’s filmmaking career has taken him to Honduras, Canada and Zambia among other places -- always traveling and telling stories through a socio-political lens. Sam uses film as a means to combine his passion for the beautiful struggle of social change and the power of art. Sam’s films have played at the Sundance Film Festival, AmDocs Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival among others.

Sam’s works include INVASION (2021) LA LUCHA SIGUE: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES (2020) L'EAU EST LA VIE (WATER IS LIFE): FROM STANDING ROCK TO THE SWAMP (2019), WAR PAINT (2018), OMI & OPA (2017), BERTA DIDN’T DIE (2016), CALIGINOSITY (2016), GOOD KIDD (2016), SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (2016), FEARLESS (2014)