Samantha Grant

Founder Filmmaker @Gush Productions

San Francisco, CA, US

With an eye for beauty & a lust for meaning, 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 work for PBS, MTV, ABC, CNN, FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE/World, POV, Independent Lens, NPR, A&E, History Channel, Lifetime, Variety, Al Jazeera Intl, PRI, & others, GUSH\'s work has toured internationally on the festival circuit and been broadcast to millions of people globally. GUSH also works with corporate clients like IDEO, 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 will bring your vision to light. GUSH specializes in short & 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 ready to take on any job, anywhere. Sam’s work has received awards & honors including the National Press Club Award, the National Ethics Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, a Natl. Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming, and a Natl. Emmy nom & Peabody nom for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, a CarnegieKnight News 21 Fellowship, a BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship, a Yale Poynter Fellowship and others. Sam\'s work has been supported by ITVS, PBS, CPB, the NEH, The Ford Foundation, The Logan Family Foundation, the Sundance Doc Fund, the Skoll Foundation, The Berkeley Film Foundation, and others, including private investors and donors. When not Directing, Shooting, or Producing documentaries, Sam works as a keynote speaker at conferences and Universities around the world, playing music with friends, surfing, gardening, or wrangling her 3 kids in the streets of San Francisco.

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Journalism, Cinematography and Film/Video Production

New York University

Semester Abroad in Spain, Spanish Language and Culture

LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture

Creative Art Practice and Torah Study

Yale University

BA, American Studies and Literature