Sam is an activist, filmmaker and cinematographer. His debut documentary feature, currently in the late stages of post-production, is Israelism, which explores the American Jewish community’s shifting relationship to the Israel/Palestine conflict, and his second feature, Generation Green New Deal, which follows the youth climate activists of the Sunrise Movement is in late production.
His other credits include cinematography on the film Zuni in the Grand Canyon, which was produced in collaboration with the Zuni indigenous people and editing the boxing documentary Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story which was an official selection at TriBeCa in 2020.
Grantee
Sam Eilersten
Co-Director