Samantha Moore is an independent film maker who makes animated documentaries. In 2010 she finished "An Eyeful of Sound" for The Wellcome Trust, about synaesthesia, which won the 'Nature' award for Scientific Merit at the 2010 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York as well as two other awards and numerous international screenings.

Together with producer Joshka Wessels Sam's most recent film was for the Screen West Midlands/UK Film Council Digital Shorts scheme called "The Beloved Ones" about children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda. It has been screened internationally, and at Animafest, Zagreb 2008 it received a special mention from the grand jury.

In 2006 she won a Wellcome Trust 'sciart' research and development award, which involved working with Dr Jamie Ward from UCL Psychology Department and members of the New London Orchestra on a project about the condition of synaesthesia.

In 2004 she made a short film commissioned by 'animate!' for Channel 4 and Arts Council England called "doubled up", and before that she made "Success with Sweet Peas" about competitive sweet pea growers in Shropshire. Both films are distributed by Big Film Shorts (USA) and Lux (UK).

Sam is senior lecturer in animation at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of CADRE. She is based in Shropshire and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Loughborough Animation Academy.

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