Sam Soh

✰ Documentary & Direction ✰




About



Tags:
Curatorial, Documentary, Event Videography, Music Video, Promotional Video, Vignette
I’m Sam Soh (she/her) – a moving image artist and freelance filmmaker. My practice draws from the traditions and methods of documentary, dance, spatial design, street casting and cultural theory. At the confluence of moving body and moving image, I explore ideas around space, home, community, heritage, displacement and migration. I am drawn to unique people, places and passions, and have an endless curiosity for approaching general public and discovering the different communities we form and the spaces we both inhabit and leave behind.

My films have been recognised at festivals in the USA, France and the United Arab Emirates and I have worked for clients in Canada, Japan, USA and Australia. Select clients include Dark Mofo, Canon, Air Canada, Sapporo and Bett Gallery. I currently sit on the board of the experimental arts publication Runway Journal as a Digital Producer. I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) / Bachelor of Visual Arts from Monash University (2018), and I studied Documentary Filmmaking and Video Storytelling at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Århus, Denmark (2017).


I am available for commissions, collaborations and freelance video work – feel free to reach out anytime via email. You can also find me on Instagram, Vimeo, Are.na, IMDb and Read.cv.









CURRENT COLLABORATIONS
       Runway Journal (Digital Producer + Board)
       PR Pictures (Casting and Production)


SELECT CLIENTS
Dark Mofo, Canon, Air Canada, Denso, Sapporo, Beaker Street Festival, Japan Festival Canada, Bett Gallery, ACAE Gallery, Ingledale Farm

HONOURS AND AWARDS
2020: Industry Development Grant, Screen Tasmania
2019: Award of Excellence, WJEC Paris
2018: Best of Festival Award Winner, BEA Festival of Media Arts, Las Vegas
2018: Top Five Finalist for Best Documentary, ZUMEFF, Abu Dhabi
2017: Monash Abroad Travel Grant, Monash University
2016: World Food Books Award, MADA

AFFILIATED WORK
2023-current: Digital Producer, Runway Journal
2022-current: Senior Content Specialist, Simba Global
2018-19: Marketing Assistant, Moving Story Entertainment

EDUCATION
2020: The Director’s Journey, Short Course, AFTRS
2017: International Video Storytelling, DMJX (Denmark)
2014-18: Bachelor of Arts (Journalism), Monash University
2014-18: Bachelor of Visual Arts, Monash University

CURATING, EVENTS AND PROGRAMMING
2021: Curator, Here, For Now, Dogmilk VODmilk
2018: Co-curator, cc: Projects (with Lucy Kostos)

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2023: Gabriel’s Horn Music Video, Fantastic Film Festival (Melbourne, AU)
2019: We Are Romansh, Screening, WJEC Paris (Paris, FR)
2018: We Are Romansh, Screening, BEA Festival of Media Arts (Las Vegas, USA)
2018: We Are Romansh, Screening, ZUMEFF (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
2016: MADA Now Graduate Show (Melbourne, AU)
2016: Suburbia, Ba(t)ch Gallery (Melbourne, AU)
2016: Runt Zine Fair (Melbourne, AU)
2016: Cuntalope Zine Launch (Melbourne, AU)

PRESS
2018: Documentary Weekly, Featured Documentary
2018: Zeitjung, Featured Curator
2018: Newly Swissed, Featured Documentary
2018: DMJX Aktuelt, Featured Documentary
2018: BEA Press, Featured Documentary

CREWING
2022: Set Dresser, Aftertaste S2, ABC (Adelaide, AU)
2020: Art Assistant, The Amazing Race S5, Eureka Productions (Tasmania, AU)
2019: Production Assistant, Bonds Organics Campaign, James J. Robinson (Los Angeles, USA)
2019: Set Dresser, Park So-Dam, Wonderland Magazine (Los Angeles, USA)
2018: 1st AC, Kitty’s Naughty Knickers (Montreal, CA)
2017: Art Assistant, Nobody’s Prey Music Video (Aarhus, DK)
2014: Background Extra, Hell on Wheels, S4E18, AMC (Calgary, CA)