Sam Firth is based and makes work in the Highlands of Scotland. Her films explore the boundaries between documentary, fiction, science and art, personal experience and wider context. Her work has been described as playful and visually poetic, making the everyday cinematic. She is best known for experimental documentary filmmaking. Her first film, I.D., won awards internationally, her second film, THE WORM INSIDE, was selected by Sight & Sound in its eight highlights of the London Short Film Festival. Together they form part of a triptych exploring personal experience that culminates with the year-long project STAY THE SAME, a cross platform piece exploring our relationship with time funded by Creative Scotland and the BFI. Stay the Same has won numerous awards and is still being screened international. Sam has her own independent production company Lacunae Films (formerly Tiny Spark Productions) which she set up in order to produce her work. She has also produces community film projects has won awards for her work with children and young people.
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