Samantha Farinella

Samantha Farinella is a New York City-based filmmaker and founder of One Angry Woman Productions. Farinella's latest feature length project, Hunting in Wartime, premiered on National PBS and has screened in over twenty venues over the past year including the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, The National Archives, the American Indian Film Festival and the Hanoi Cinematheque. It recently won the Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in Documentary and the Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award at the Inwood Film Festival in NYC. Her first feature documentary, Left Lane, won eight awards including honors in New Zealand, Paris and New York. It was featured in over forty festivals including Galway's International Film Festival, Frameline in San Francisco and Out in Africa (South Africa's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival). She also has extensive television production experience, having produced award-winning behind the scenes and promo spots for numerous series including South Of Nowhere and Degrassi: The Next Generation on Teen Nick. In addition, Farinella has many accomplishments in field production and videography with networks including MTV, Spike, The History Channel, Animal Planet and PBS. Farinella's most recent staff position was as a Broadcast Producer at a creative agency where she reversioned US commercials for the global market, produced industrials for corporations and field produced internal corporate videos. Samantha is an MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College.