About

Sam is a Creative Video Producer based in NW England working across a wide range of moving image based formats - From Film & TV, to advertising, branded led content, reality TV and documentary.

He has a life long passion for filmmaking that first put a camera in his hands when he was a teenager, ever since then he has pro-actively developed his career towards telling authentic stories in the moving image format. 

Sam has been working in the industry for 2 decades across a variety of roles. He began his career in the camera department for TV show ‘Shameless’ as an trainee. He later went on to shoot Commercials, documentaries and Children's TV as a cinematographer. In 2015 he founded the boutique production company ‘Paragon Pictures’ in Manchester UK and his career shifted focus into Production - Where he continues to work extensively with global consumer brands, on projects both in the UK and Europe. 

Whenever Sam is engaged with a project, his focus is always on creating the best outcome for everyone involved. He has achieved commercial success with his production company and in recent years has won multiple creative awards at Campaign’s ‘Brand Film Awards’. Sam is inspired to develop audience first projects that are delivered to the highest standard possible, and he is continually bringing teams together to develop new shared co-productions. 

Whenever Sam is engaged with a project, his focus is always on creating the best outcome for everyone involved. He has achieved commercial success with his production company and in recent years has won multiple creative awards at Campaign’s ‘Brand Film Awards’. Sam is inspired to develop audience first projects that are delivered to the highest standard possible, and he is continually bringing teams together to develop new shared co-productions.

Projects in production: 
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  • ‘Synthesized’ narrative feature film starring Thomas Turgoose 
  • Developing a new hybrid VP approach to the popular Table Top RPG
  • Development of a kids TV series ‘The Crafternoonies’
  • Brand funded feature length documentary ‘Pathways’ for Yamaha Music