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About Sam
Storyteller / Traveler / Enthusiast
Sam’s background is diverse and dynamic. His skills fall evenly across the producing, shooting and editing areas and have been exercised across 10+ States and five countries. Under his belt are seven years of experience including three years creating content in a top-tier agency environment for brands recognized nationally and worldwide like Samsung, Philips, Abbvie, Anheuser Busch, AT&T, Merck, PwC, Olympus and more.
Sam is also comfortable outside the agency environment and has done freelance work in the U.S. and Zimbabwe for various industries including tourism, development and entertainment. Given the breadth of challenges Sam has tackled he has learned and worked in many programs and systems. He is comfortable working on Final Cut, Avid Media Composer, the Adobe Suite, DaVinci Resolve and more. He can cater his skills to fit any budget and is confident working with DSLRs and RED cameras alike, and anything in between.
Already a confident editor and shooter he has spent much of his agency time developing additional skills as he wrote proposals, helped pitch new business, budgeted work, hired interns, art directed motion graphics artists, handled clients and more. Finally Sam brings a calm competency to any environment and performs extremely well under stress, a fact that has been tested in front of global CEOs and working in foreign countries like Saudi Arabia under massive pressure.
Born to State Department parents, Sam grew up overseas. He spent four years in South Africa, another four in Zimbabwe and three in Guatemala before returning to the States to start High School. Sam then spent his high school years in Fairfax, VA right outside of Washington, DC before moving to New York to study Television and Film at Hofstra University. At Hofstra he received a Bachelor of Science in the field of Television and Film production and graduated Summa Cum Laude after being named the Television/Film student of the year.
The childhood Sam spent in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Guatemala implanted in him a curiosity and love for learning that motivates his work to this day. Media production is the perfect melding of the things that his childhood gave him passion for; meeting interesting people, travel, storytelling and technology.
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