A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Sam is a London based Cinematographer working internationally on Feature Films, TV Dramas and Commercials. He is a story driven cinematographer who brings a unique and sensitive approach to each project. His collaborations with talented directors and producers from around the world have led him to photograph diverse projects ranging from small independent films to large scale productions. Sam has shot many award winning projects including BFI funded feature film 'Couple in a Hole' directed by Tom Geens, which won 3 awards at the Dinard British Film Festival 2015, including the Golden Hitchcock. In 2018 Sam's critically acclaimed TV mini series 'Born To Kill' earned him a BAFTA Cymru nomination for Photography & Lighting Fiction. Recently Sam collaborated with Camera D'or winning director Anthony Chen on his second feature film 'Wet Season', filmed in Singapore and Malaysia. He has also completed a new series of Marcella for Netflix / ITV, re-booting the Anna Friel show with French director Gilles Bannier.
Additional Camera:
2011 Anuvahood
2017 Hampstead
Additional Photography:
2008 Greys Inbetween
2011 Anuvahood
2013 uwantme2killhim?
2017 Hampstead
Director of Photography:
2004 Decadence is Easy
2006 Providence
2007 Cuckoo
2008 Changing Faces
2008 Greys Inbetween
2008 Open Secrets
2010 Connect
2010 Nightswimming
2011 Anuvahood
2012 Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia
2013 Spoiler Alert
2013 uwantme2killhim?
2014 Shelter
2015 Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015 The Last Post
2016 Couple in a Hole
2017 Another Mother's Son
2017 Hampstead
2017 The Riot Act
2019 Wet Season
2020 Murder Manual
Executive Producer:
2004 Decadence is Easy
2006 Providence
2007 Cuckoo
2008 Changing Faces
2008 Greys Inbetween
2008 Open Secrets
2010 Connect
2010 Nightswimming
2011 Anuvahood
2012 Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia
2013 Spoiler Alert
2013 uwantme2killhim?
2014 Shelter
2015 Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
2015 The Last Post
2016 Couple in a Hole
2017 Another Mother's Son
2017 Hampstead
2017 The Riot Act
2019 Wet Season
2020 Murder Manual
Additional Photography:
2024 Doctor Who
Director of Photography:
2007 Skins
2009 Misfits
2013 The Tunnel
2016 Marcella
2017 Born to Kill
2017 In the Dark
2022 Sherwood
2023 Nolly
2024 Doctor Who
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.