The first feature film that she produced was Milcho Manchevski's Oscar nominated Before the Rain (1994) which won the Golden Lion in Venice. After that, Sam produced Benjamin Ross' feature debut The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) and then Sweet Angel Mine (1996). After a brief excursion into the art world working with Sam Taylor-Wood on her video installation "Pent-Up" she produced Christos Georgiou’s  Under the Stars before joining forces with Mike Downey to form F&ME in January 2000.

 

Since then she has produced Deathwatch (2002) (starring Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis), Hilmar Oddson’s Cold Light, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s films Niceland and Falcons, and co-produced Anders Ronnow Klarlund’s puppet epic Strings, Loving Glances, which was selected for competition in Venice 2003, My Brother is a Dog, and Jannik Johansen’s Murk. Other films include Call of the Toad (Gunter Grass), and Simon Aeby’s The Headsman.

In 2005-8 she produced Saul Metzstein’s Guy X starring Jason "American Pie" Biggs, Jeremy Northam and Natascha McElhone. Eleven Men Out,  Anastezi, The Border Post by Rajko Grlic, Projecto Dos, Quest for a Heart,thecompany’s first animation film with songs by Billy Elliot’s Lee Hall, and The Mystery of the Wolf a family film shot in Lapland and Bathory.

In addition she co-produced Mark Dornford-May’s South African Son Of Man which screened in Sundance 2007.

In 2009 she produced White Lightnin, debut film maker Dominic Murphy’s first feature which was screened in Sundance 2009 and in the Berlin Panorama competition. It was financed by the UKFC /Vice Films/Salt and will be released in September 2009 by Momentum. She also produced the feature documentary, Turtle: the Incredible Journey which is being released by Polyband Germany on 100 prints in September 2009 and is sold by Sola Media.

Rejkavik Whale Watching Massacre, Julius Kemp’s Icelandic horror romp is in post-production and Fake! will go into production this summer.

Iron Sky, the Ugly and Neil Neil Orange Peel are her up-coming co-productions for 2010. She is also preparing Iain M Banks sci-fi masterpiece State of the Art with director Dominic Murphy. Co-production The Mortician starts shooting in NYC this October.

In early days Sam was script reader for the European Script Fund, and European Projects reader for Channel 4. She has script edited many films as well as her own productions. She sits on the UK Pact advisory board for Film.

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