Sam Firth
Writer / Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Sam Firth is based and makes work in the Highlands of Scotland. Her films explore the boundaries between documentary, fiction, science and art, personal experience and wider context. Her work has been described as playful and visually poetic, making the everyday cinematic.
She is best known for experimental documentary filmmaking. Her first film, I.D., won awards internationally, her second film, THE WORM INSIDE, was selected by Sight & Sound in its eight highlights of the London Short Film Festival. Together they form part of a triptych exploring personal experience that culminates with the year-long project STAY THE SAME, a cross platform piece exploring our relationship with time funded by Creative Scotland and the BFI. Stay the Same has won numerous awards and is still being screened international.
Sam has her own independent production company Lacunae Films (formerly Tiny Spark Productions) which she set up in order to produce her work. She has also produces community film projects has won awards for her work with children and young people.
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
THE WOLF SUIT | Funded by the BFI, Creative Scotland and the Wellcome Trust | In Post-Production. |
ISOBEL | Digicult / Creative Scotland | A feature length screenplay about the summer holidays off the west coast of Scotland about two teenager sisters on a sailing trip who fall in love with the same boy. In development with Digicult through the Incubator Scheme, commissioned to first draft by Creative Scotland. |
Short Films
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
CREELING 2016 | Scottish Film Talent Network / Hopscotch films | A fourteen year old girl from a small highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman, and persuades him to take her out for the day. Written and Directed by Sam Firth |
2012 | Funded w/ development funds from the UK Film Council/BFI & Creative Scotland w/ support from the Scottish Documentary Institute | A year long experimental documentary and web project about our relationship with time, nature and documentary itself. *Winner International Competition VideoEX Film Festival, Zurich 2015 |
2010 | Funded by BBC Scotland, Creative Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Documentary Institute | 10m "Never brooding or morose, The Worm Inside is a compelling insight into the trauma that many of us go through when faced with unwelcome news." Brief Encounters Film Festival 2010, London Short Film Festival 2011 Selected by Sight & Sound magazine in their highlights of the London Short Film Festival. |
2009 | 1m * Winner One Minute Film competition Celtic Media Festival 2009 Encounters Film Festival 2009, London Short Film Festival 2010 |