https://www.samfederfilms.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd45bd12463d63375d85e1/6324eecd-fad9-4f82-abd3-929bc58fa989/Sam+headshot+Cinema+Eye.jpeg About - Sam Feder Sam Feder created and directed the critically acclaimed films, Heightened Scrutiny (Sundance 2025), DISCLOSURE (Sundance 2020), Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger (2014), and Boy I Am (2006). Sam’s filmmaking practice centers on exposing silences in order to build solidarity across movements for political, social, and economic justice. Their films explore the intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race, class, and gender. Sam’s work has been programmed internationally at festivals, theaters, and museums such as, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Film Festival, DOCNYC, Sheffield DocFest, DC/DOXS, MOMA-PS1, The Hammer Museum, The Alamo Drafthouse and more. Sam’s film, DISCLOSURE, was nominated for a Peabody Award and Sam was recently invited to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch. Sam’s work has been supported by Ford/JustFilms, Perspective Fund, California Humanities, The Jerome Foundation, Threshold, IFP Film Week, Good Pitch USA, and MacDowell, and Yaddo artist residencies. https://www.samfederfilms.com/press daily 0.75 2020-09-14 https://www.samfederfilms.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-06-02 https://www.samfederfilms.com/disclosure daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd45bd12463d63375d85e1/1590685403492-D2MAWREC7ZMST3Z4M6Z2/indie-black.png Disclosure Indiewire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd45bd12463d63375d85e1/1590609997620-J7W7X8EAFZ8IDWZ36V4H/DISCLOSURE+LAVERNE_COX___SAM_FEDER.png Disclosure Laverne Cox and Sam Feder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd45bd12463d63375d85e1/1590796727576-I82P9EDS31WN6B3LX46O/california-humanities-1920.png Disclosure California Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecd45bd12463d63375d85e1/1590685361381-YSFY3QDAXYT4T0UIX2NW/thr-black.png 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