Sam Feder
Sam Feder is a Peabody Award-nominated film director and writer. Sam created The Netflix Original Documentary, DISCLOSURE (Sundance, 2020), and is currently developing the scripted TV series, WEIMAR with Executive Producers Lilly Wachowski and Bruce Cohen, about trans life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Sam is also writing and directing an episode for The Netflix Original animation series, Calling All Superheroes.
Sam’s films explore the intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race, class, and gender and their filmmaking practice models inclusion and equity in the industry. Sam’s films have been programmed by Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, CPH:DOX, MOMA PS-1, The British Film Institute, The Hammer Museum, and in hundreds of film festivals around the world. Sam’s work has been supported by Ford/JustFilms, Fork Films, California Humanities, The Jerome Foundation, Perspective Fund, Threshold, IFP Film Week, Good Pitch USA/Doc Society, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo artist residency.
FILMOGRAPHY : DIRECTOR
Features
DISCLOSURE
A Netflix Original, World Premiere Sundance, 2020
Kate Bornstein Is A Queer & Pleasant Danger
World Premiere, British Film Institute, 2014
Boy I Am
World Premiere, NewFest, 2006
Shorts
When The Dust Settles, 2019
This All Happened Already, 2010
Billy: A Portrait Of A Dancer, 2010
No More Lies, 2009
FILMOGRAPHY : CREW
Producer
Kelby
Dir. Lily Baldwin
Producer
House Devil, Street Angel
Dir. Fivel Rothberg
Producer/Editor
F. Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here
Dir. Jules Rosskam
Producer
Against A Trans Narrative
Dir. Jules Rosskam
Editor
Traverse City
Dir. Mickey Mahoney
Editor
For The Love Of Dolly
Dir. Tai Ulhmann
Boom Operator
Lover Other
Dir. Barbara Hammer
First Assistant Camera
My Best Day
Dir. Erin Greenwell
Camera
The Rink
Dir. Sarah Friedland
Camera
Riot Acts
Dir. Madsen Minax
Gaffer
Keep It Moving
Dir. Silas Howard
Social Media Strategist
Care
Dir. Deidre Fischel
Impact Producer
Out Run
Dirs. Johnny Symons and S. Leo Chiang
Associate Producer
Beyond Good And Evil: Media, Children & Violent Times
Dir. Chyng-Feng Sun
Archival Researcher
Ancient Creature Of The Deep
Dir. Celia Lowenstei
GRANTS
Ford Foundation/Just Films
Fork Films Grant
Threshold
Perspective Fund
California Humanities Documentary Project Grant
Jerome Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Frameline Completion Fund
Crossroads Foundation
Funding Exchange Paul Robeson
Astrea Foundation for Justice
Illinois Arts Council
CLAGS, Robert Giard Fellowship Honorable Mention
Chicken and Egg Pictures Breakthrough Award Nominee
AWARDS
PEABODY AWARD NOMINEE
Best Documentary
GLAAD Media Award
Best Documentary
The Queerties
Best Documentary
PINK News Awards
Best Documentary
The Dorian Awards
James Aronson Award for
Social Justice Journalism
Best Feature
TranScreen International Film Festival
JURY Special Commendation
Ireland International Film Festival
Best Feature
Beacon Independent Film Festival
Best Feature
Trans|Lations Film Festival
Must-See Film of 2014
IndieWire
Favorite Films From Outfest
The Advocate
Voted One of the Best 2014 Films
The Advocate Magazine
Best Documentary Feature Award
Seattle Film Festival
Must-See Gender Documentary
Curve Magazine
MUSEUMS & BROADCAST
Netflix
World Wide
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
ONE Archives Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Buffalo, NY
SPACE Gallery
Portland, ME
MOMA-PS1
New York, NY
Gallery 1C03
Winnipeg, Canada
Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA
Here!TV
National Broadcast
National Museum for Women
Washington, DC
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA