Sam Osborn
Sam Osborn (2020) is a Mexican-American writer and filmmaker. He has directed films for Topic Studios, Vice News, Great Big Story, Jazz at Lincoln Center, ITVS and more. Most recently he completed “Varsity Oro,” a short film for Pop-Up Magazine about varsity mariachi teams in the Rio Grande Valley. “Language Keepers,” a hybrid documentary project meant to help sustain the endangered Athabaskan language of Gwich’in, premiered at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and was supported by the Alaska Humanities Fund and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For Topic Studios, he directed the four-part documentary series “Night Shift” and “Eating,” a series of 10 short documentaries. His debut feature-length documentary, “Universe,” about Wallace Roney, the only protégé of Miles Davis, premiered at the 2020 Sheffield DocFest.
As Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, Sam will work alongside Alejandra Vasquez on a film about a postman servicing the bordertowns of West Texas.