Samuel Harwood is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Mexico City.
First published in the Los Angeles Times when he was a student at Sarah Lawrence College, he went on to work as reporter for his local newspaper in L.A. and as a researcher for former Congressman John Dingell’s memoir The Dean (HarperCollins, 2018).
His essays and journalism, much of it focused on the meeting of film with history and politics, have been widely published in the U.S., the U.K., Latin America and Europe, including in L.A. Taco, Fintualist México, Aesthetica Magazine, Slant Magazine, Video Librarian and Projektor.
A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in screenwriting, his feature film script, Dick Nixon, was a finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival and his TV pilot, Angela, was a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival. La Bailarina, a short film he wrote, directed and edited, screened at the Queens World Film Festival and was acquired for distribution by Seven Palms Entertainment.
He has also worked as a writer, researcher and editor for a variety of private family history books, including as a freelancer for the U.K.-based Family History Films, and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.
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