Sam Taylor is director and joint-owner of Film and Music Entertainment who merged her company Mass Productions Ltd into F&ME in January 2000. Her most recent credits are Deathwatch, Hilmar Oddson’s Cold Light, Fridrik Thor Fridkriksson’s films Niceland and Falcons, Anders Ronnow Klarlund’s puppet epic Strings, Loving Glances, which was selected for competition in Venice 2003, and Peter Timm’s My Brother is a Dog.

Most recently, Sam has produced Saul Metzstein’s Guy X starring Jason "American Pie" Biggs, Jeremy Northam and Natascha McElhone, Jannik Johansen’s Murk, Robert Glinski’s Call of the Toad based on the novel by Gunter Grass, and Simon Aeby’s Shadow of the Sword starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Steven Berkoff, and Peter McDonald.

She began her career as head of international sales at Jeremy Thomas and Chris Blackwell's company Oasis and was responsible for selling a range of titles including Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. She then went to St Petersburg to work as 2nd Assistant Director on an Anglo-Russian co-production, Contact, before producing the short film My Little Eye for C4.

Her first feature as producer was Milcho Manchevski's Oscar nominated Before the Rain, which won the Golden Lion in Venice. After that, she produced Benjamin Ross' feature debut The Young Poisoner's Handbook and then Sweet Angel Mine. After a brief excursion into the art world working with Sam Taylor-Wood on her video installation "Pent-Up" she completed the Greek language Under the Stars and formed F&ME with Mike Downey.

She sits on the Film Policy Group at PACT (UK Producer's Alliance) and from 2000-2001 was the PACT representative on the Skillset board.

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