Director info

Samantha Moore is an independent film maker who makes animated documentary work. She is currently working on a new film "An Eyeful of Sound" for The Wellcome Trust, about synaesthesia due for completion in 2009. 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 Kenya and Uganda. It has been screened internationally at the Aspen Shortsfest 2008 in USA, at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Short Film Corner 2007 and at the Animafest, Zagreb 2008 where it received a special mention. 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. She is based in Shropshire.