Name Sam Cullman Role Cinematographer | ||
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Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Movies If a Tree Falls: A Story of th, Art And Craft, The House I Live In, King Corn, Watchers of the Sky Similar People Marshall Curry, Jennifer Grausman, Eugene Jarecki, Nick Fraser, Melinda Shopsin | ||
Art and craft directors sam cullman jennifer grausman tribeca film festival interview pfm
Sam Cullman (born 1976) is a cinematographer, director and editor of documentaries, and the founder of Yellow Cake Films, a film production company.
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- Art and craft directors sam cullman jennifer grausman tribeca film festival interview pfm
- If A Tree Falls A Story of the Earth Liberation Front QA 2011 Sundance Film Festival
- Career
- As a director
- Personal life
- References
Cullman graduated from Brown University in 1999, receiving a degree in Urban Studies and Visual Arts.
If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Q&A @ 2011 Sundance Film Festival
Career
Cullman was one of the camera operators on Why We Fight, which won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in 2005. He was a cinematographer on the 2007 documentary King Corn. Cullman was a producer and director of photography on The House I Live In, which was the Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance 2012 and was the recipient of the "React to Film" Award at Silverdocs. He was also a cinematographer on Watchers of the Sky (2014).
On January 24, 2012, Cullman and Marshall Curry were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. At the 84th Academy Awards, their film lost to Undefeated. In 2012, Cullman and Benjamin Rosen made Black Cherokee, a short subject, premiering in November 2012 as part of DOC NYC, a documentary film festival.
Cullman is a director, producer and the cinematographer of Art and Craft (2014), with director and producer Jennifer Grausman and co-Director Mark Becker. On December 2, 2014, Art and Craft was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
As a director
Personal life
Cullman is best friends with political analyst and hotelier Nicholas Noe. He is married to Purva Panday Cullman.