Sam Berliner
he/him

Portrait of Sam Berliner with a beaming smile on a sunny day in front of colourful street art. He has fair skin, black-rimmed rectangular glasses and short brown hair, and is wearing a dark green shirt.

Job title
filmmaker   festival programmer   animator  
Identity categories
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trans   non-binary   genderqueer   queer  
Places of practice

Bay Area, California, United States of America

Images
Portrait of Sam Berliner with a beaming smile on a sunny day in front of colourful street art. He has fair skin, black-rimmed rectangular glasses and short brown hair, and is wearing a dark green shirt.

Portrait of Sam Berliner with a beaming smile on a sunny day in front of colourful street art. He has fair skin, black-rimmed rectangular glasses and short brown hair, and is wearing a dark green shirt.

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Biography

Sam Berliner is a Bay Area-based filmmaker and animator best known for his engaging and accessible films about gender non-conformity. His award winning short films, Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure, Genderbusters and Perception have screened all over the world. When not actively making films, Sam is the festival director of Translations: the Seattle Transgender Film Festival. He also gives presentations about gender at organizations and schools. He freelances as a camera assistant, still photographer, animator, producer and editor. Sam graduated in 2005 from Smith College with a BA in Film & Theatre and earned an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2013.

The Official Website for the Films of Sam Berliner. “About Me,” n.d. https://www.donutfilms.org/bio.
Filmography
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    Genderbusters

    film/video, 2010

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Producer

References
VUACVU. “Bio,” n.d. https://vucavu.com/en/artists/b/sam-berliner.