Samantha Harrie

Originally from the West Midlands, Samantha is a director working across film and television. She started out as a fine artist until the storytelling bug led her into making films. Her work centres around strong female characters, black comedy and drama. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, where she was awarded a scholarship from the David Lean Foundation . Her graduation film Love Letters, was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. Sam made her TV drama debut on C4 with single drama, Call It A Night, written by Bronagh Taggart and starring Andrew Simpson, (Notes on A Scandal,) as part of the Coming Up series. Sam has also directed two blocks of Holby City , Doctors and was selected for the DUK, High End TV Drama Directors Programme, working on Call The Midwife, with Neal Street productions. She also was featured on the BBC Hot New Talent list. She has made award winning short films including Breathe and Copier, screening at numerous international Festivals, with premieres at Edinburgh IFF, Rotterdam IFF, Cucalorus and London Short Film Festival, to name a few. Sam is currently developing two authored TV series: Lovelocked, with a small team of writers including Melissa Iqbal and Bite with writer Nicola Mills, a transformative-gender, revenge thriller. She is also working on two feature films: A sci-fi, black comedy, The Pod, also with Melissa Iqbal and a psychological-thriller, Orchestra, as a writer-director. In recent years Sam has been selected for Guiding Lights and mentored by Academy Award winner Kevin MacDonald. She has also been part of Network EIFF working with Kate Leys and Peter Ettedgui and reached the final round of Microwave with Film London. Sam is also a co-founder of Cinesisters the female directors collective.