 Samantha
Davidson Green is a 4th-year Directing
student at UCLA's Graduate School of Film,
TV & Digital Media. A native of New
Hampshire, Davidson Green graduated from
Stanford University in 1992 where she
studied English and the Humanities. She
discovered her passion to make films while
reaching high school students in rural
Mississippi, where she put the video camera
to work in the classroom. Before returning
to graduate school, she worked in the
Educational Programs department at San
Francisco's PBS station where she initiated
a Media Literacy program for students in the
Bay Area. In 2000, she began her study of
filmmaking at UCLA.
In her films Davidson Green explores
characters at crossroads in their lives,
often employing comedy to wrestle with
darker aspects of human existence. In her
first film Couch Encounte/Encuentro con
el Sillón, three characters meet a
cultural crossroads. In her thesis film
Dead End Job, an obituary writer with a
peculiar gift for prediction confronts her
own mortality; at this internal crossroads,
she discovers her ability to transform her
life. Davidson Green strives to tell stories
that reveal our souls’ efforts to find
meaning in every day existence.
At UCLA, Davidson Green has directed,
written and produced 4 films: Couch
Encounter/Encuentro con el Sillón
(comedy, I6mm, 10 mins), Suave Date
(narrative, 16nim, 4mins), Running for
Life (documentary, DV. 30mins), and
Dead End Job (narrative, 35mm/21 mins).
Other credits include The Shabbos Goy
(Producer/AD l6mm/3Omins); Cartographica
(DP, I6mm/10 mins); The Vessel Pitches
(Producer- 35mm/21 mins) and Magnetic
Poles (Co-producer- 35mm/22mins).
She has received the Mary Pickford Award,
the MacGowan Award, the Hollywood Foreign
Press Award, the Lvnn Weston Award, and the
Caucus for Television Producers, Writers &
Directors Foundation for her filmmaking at
UCLA. Couch Encounter/Encuentro con el
Sillón has screened at the Los Angeles
Latino International Film Festival (LA.,
CA), International Film Festival of the
Americas (Austin. TX), AFL-CIO-sponsored DC
Labor Film Festival (Washington, DC), The
International Working Class Film & Video
Festival (San Francisco, CA), Crested Butte
Reel Film Fest - Independent Spirit Award
Winner (Crested Butte, CO), Antimatter/Rogue
Arts Film Festival (Victoria, BC Canada),
Woods Hole Film Festival (MA), Latino Film
Festival, Bav Area - Nominated for Best
Student Short (San Francisco, CA),
Borderland Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
and UCLA Film Festival - Nominated for Most
Original Film (LA, CA).
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