About Sam Smith
Samuel Wright Smith is a cinematographer, gaffer, animator, filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist located in NYC and Cincinnati, Ohio. He has made it his goal to share images and stories that are both personal and universal. Smith is interested in art that blurs imagined boundaries such as us/them, self/other, human/nature and life/death.
Smith graduated from New York University Tisch with a BFA in Film/TV in 2022.
Cindependent Best Animation for Embodied, 2025
Rooftop Films Official Selection for Embodied, 2025
BRIClabs Video Art fellow, 2024-2025
Inwood Art Works Film Fund Grantee, 2025
NYSCA grantee, 2025
Untitled Filmmaker Organization fellow and grantee, 2024-2026
DOCNYC official selection for Landline, 2023
King Award finalist for Landline, 2022
NYU Tisch Film/TV Graduating Class of 2022 Award for Excellence in Animation
Tisch School of the Arts Family Production Grant for Landline
Todd Martin Grant for Landline
National Board of Review Grant Winner 2021 for Life Eternal
NFFTY best animation nominee 2019 for Eztli
Winner of Visual Arts Overture Award, 2016
BRIClab 2024-2025 Video Art Artists
My Deathbed in Moonlight, at Green-Wood Cemetery: Embodied premiere
Filmmaker Magazine: UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org) Announces Spring 2024 Short Film Lab Cohort
LANDLINE - NYU TIsch First Run Festival 2023
National Board of Review - Life Eternal
In 'Abandoned Cincinnati' Young Author, Photographer Captures Old Haunts