Sam Firth is a filmmaker and storyteller living and working in the Highlands of Scotland in Morvern on the West Coast.
Her work treads the lines between documentary and fiction, the personal and political, film and poetry. She is know for her short film ID (2009) made from 1980’s passport photos which won Encounters DepicT and the Chicago Film Festival Human Condition Competition, the year-long project Stay the Same (2013) filmed in the same spot every day which won best film at VideoEx Film Festival in Zurich (competing with that years turner prize winner) and her first feature film The Wolf Suit which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival where it won the BFI Chanel Filmmaker Award and was released by Bohemia on Sky and Amazon Prime in 2023.
Sam Firth is also a community practitioner who has been engaging communities creatively for over 25 years and has won awards for her work in this area. She has a particular interest in community land ownership, people and their relationship to place and managing the cultural and social shifts brought about by transitioning landscapes and nature restoration.
You can watch examples of her work here.
