Terminal Island (2024)

Sam Drake (USA) is a filmmaker born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1989. Her films have been described as “a collage of sequences that combine the tradition of the cine-journal (filming everyday life) and visual music (thinking of the film as a musical composition where the frames are notes), immersing us in critical meditation on urban space. The poetry of her editing is undeniable and is built around changes of scale” (Samy Benammar). She received an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2024). Her previous films, including Baby Gator Dreams of Britney (2018), Body Legato (2022), and Test Objects (2023), have screened at festivals and venues worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, CROSSROADS, Wexner Center for the Arts, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Non-Syntax Experimental Image Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, No Name Cinema, and Antimatter. She was a member of Kino Femme Film Collective in Dayton (2013–15), programmer for The Mini Microcinema in Cincinnati (2016-20), and lead programmer of Union Cinema in Milwaukee (2022–24). She has received a Princess Grace Foundation Award Honoraria (2024) and a Flaherty Film Seminar Sponsorship (2023). She lives and works in Milwaukee where she is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.