Biografia
With an eye for beauty and a lust for meaning, Samantha Grant, through her San Francisco based production company Gush Productions, makes award-winning, character-driven, journalistic, personal, & essay style documentaries that are engaging, entertaining, and provocative. With over 20 years of experience creating quality content for outlets including PBS, MTV, ABC, CNN, Frontline, Frontline/World, POV, Independent Lens, Global Voices, NPR, A&E, History Channel, Lifetime, Variety, Al Jazeera Intl, and PRI, Gush's work has been released theatrically, toured internationally on the film festival circuit, and been broadcast to millions of people globally. Gush's films have reached households across all regions and demographics throughout the United States, and have been shown on every one of PBS's strands for independent film, including Independent Lens, POV, Global Voices, and also Frontline.
Gush specializes in short and feature length non-fiction storytelling, in a style that ranges from traditional broadcast polish to edgy hybrid content. Founded by filmmaker Sam Grant in 2001, GUSH's greatest asset is its worldwide network of professionals (scores of them trained by Sam herself through her work at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford's Knight Fellowship) ready to take on any job, anywhere. Beyond journalism, GUSH works with corporate clients like IDEO, Pandora, Electronic Arts, AT&T, and Merrill Lynch to create cutting-edge, story-driven, work that meets the needs of our time. Whatever your story, the creative, reliable, and easy to work with team at GUSH can help you bring your vision to life.
Sam's work has received many awards and honors including the National Press Club Award, the National Ethics Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, a National Emmy nomination for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, a Peabody nomination, a CarnegieKnight News 21 Fellowship, a BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship, & a Yale Poynter Fellowship among many others. Sam's work has been supported by ITVS, PBS, CPB, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Ford Foundation, UsAID, The Logan Family Foundation, the Sundance Doc Fund, the Skoll Foundation, The Berkeley Film Foundation, and many others, including private investors and donors. After an early stint in Silicon Valley, Sam founded GUSH and taught visual journalism at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught for 15 years. When not Directing, Shooting, or Producing films, you'll find Sam moonlighting as a keynote speaker at conferences and Universities around the world, playing music with friends, surfing, gardening, cooking big meals, and wrangling her 3 kids in the streets of San Francisco.
