Sam Russell

Director, DP, Overtown Productions

New York, New York US

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Sam Russell is a filmmaker and cinematographer whose work has been featured on Showtime, HBO, PBS, and Netflix, among others. He began his career shooting films for PBS and its flagship program Frontline and has served as director of photography on the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies for Ken Burns, and the features Far From The Tree and Slay The Dragon, which premiered at Tribeca and is being released by Magnolia Pictures. Both films were for Participant Media. His award-winning feature documentary, By Blood, screened at film festivals around the world and broadcast on the public television series America Reframed. Sam’s latest documentary, Papertown, premiered on PBS. This past year he developed a documentary series with Jigsaw Productions and Hulu and is currently developing a new series soon to be announced.

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