Sam Kauffmann

Sam Kauffmann was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts in 2009. His films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The White House, at over 100 film festivals around the world, and aired on network television, PBS, and local stations throughout America. His documentary film Massacre at Murambi was aired on the PBS series P.O.V. and has been viewed on YouTube over one million, two hundred and fifty thousand times. He has twice received Fulbright Awards: first as a Fulbright Scholar (teaching/research) at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, where he made Living with Slim: Kids Talk about HIV/AIDS, and second as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the National University of Rwanda. He is the author of one of the most popular editing guidebooks in the world: Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, from Focal Press, now in its sixth edition. It has been translated into Spanish, Russian and Chinese editions.