Samara Chaplain Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Interpersonal skills in teamwork, networking, professionalism, and film set/industry etiquette.
• Experience on numerous film sets. Roles have included: Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Art Director, 1st AD, Production Designer, Sound, Makeup Artist, Camera Operator, PA.
• Wrote and Directed a multimedia short film called Being. Led all aspects of production with 30+ person crew for over 7 months to create the project that featured video, photo, animation, and illustration pieces in a.
• Led recruitment promotion, coordinated social media and merchandise.
• Organized and hosted bi-weekly educational and fellowship-building screenings for cinema education, focusing on diversifying the film screenings to foster a welcoming and informed community for all.
• Participated in philanthropy and engaged with community in South Los Angeles, including hosting filmmaking workshops for students attending surrounding primary and secondary schools.

Los Angeles

Organizing events, co-lead meetings, advise and support the department’s video, interactive media, and photo projects for social media. Produced multimedia projects each semester. Projects featured in each print issue of the magazine.

Hong Kong SAR

• Assisted in preparing materials and teaching visual arts and drama classes for children ages 3-16.
• Hands-on experience with kids, communication with people of all ages, prop-making, and art.
• Set up and organized a fully functioning darkroom with an enlarger, chemicals, and drying station for darkroom printing. Taught other full-time teachers darkroom preparation, printing techniques, and upkeep for a.
• Collected content for and created a 25 year anniversary reel for social media using Premiere Pro.

Hong Kong SAR

Worked in a small team to help with events, PR, and social media for food & beverage clients in Hong Kong. Clients included Coolhaus Ice Cream, Impossible Foods, and restaurants and bars such as The Savory Project and Heimat by Peter Find. Work included food and beverage photography, event and social media coverage, research, social media content creation.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Read, summarized, and reviewed scripts for Hyde Park production company.

Hong Kong SAR

Pitched, wrote, and produced for a PBS Youth Collective commission: ‘How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Putting a Spotlight on Global Inequality’, a video and infographic series. Directed on set and did post production: editing, animation, illustration.

Hong Kong SAR

Contributed content monthly, focusing on graphic design for UA’s Instagram page and illustrations to compliment pieces of writing.

Hong Kong SAR

Gave a speech and premiered a short film at the Mind Hong Kong Mental Health Conference. Interned at Mind HK, worked on ‘Coolminds’, a youth mental health initiative aiming to bring mental health practice to Hong Kong and aid the implementation of programs supporting youth. Directed and shot a commissioned short film to promote Coolminds.

Hong Kong SAR

Filmed, edited and produced film and photo content to publicize HKBCF. Organized a week-long breast cancer awareness week, made promotional content for a 'Dress Pink Day'.

Bachelor'S Degree, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Senior

Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Alpha (Pre-Professional Cinema Organization) Descent Magazine (USC's Premiere Asian-American Arts.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Creative Head of The Innovation (Charity Fashion Show) Co-Founder, Organizer, Editor, and Designer of Cyberspace.