Samara Grace Chadwick

Samara is the Executive Director of The Flaherty. Founded in 1954, The Flaherty brings together an ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, and cinephiles around a shared belief in the transformative, world-building power of independent non-fiction cinema. www.theflaherty.org

Samara is also a programmer, scholar, filmmaker, and mother. She was Senior Programmer at the Points North Institute and Camden International Film Festival (2017-2020), and has programmed for the Goethe Institut (2018-2020), HotDocs (2011-2012), RIDM in Montréal (2015-16), and has organized conferences for Visions du réel (2019), re:publica Berlin (2018), MUTEK – Montreal (2018), and the Berlin Biennale (2012). Her critically acclaimed debut feature, 1999, premiered in 2018 at Visions du réel, and has since played 30+ festivals worldwide, including HotDocs, DokuFest Kosovo, BAFICI, and the Museum of the Moving Image.