Sam Sanders IV is both an M.F.A. graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts as well as a Dean's List B.Arch graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture with a minor in Chinese Culture and Language.

 

Sam is currently both a Project Manager/ Project Architect at Preservation Green LLC as well as a Producer with Preeminent Filmz. With over a decade long, multinational career as an architect, Sam has spent his wide spanning professional career growing his passion for storytelling and the exploration of cultural expression. As an emerging filmmaker, Sam’s mission is to tell diverse, multicultural stories that dismantle stigmatizations and empower the voiceless. A lifelong and avid lover of action and drama films, Sam is shaping his filmmaking passion through development and production.

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As a creative, Sam continues to grow through the guiding philosophy that, like architecture, filmmaking is a truly collaborative and communal art form. His goal is to build opportunities for the diaspora of creative identities to share their unfiltered stories with the world.