SAM PLAKUN

CURRENT PROJECTS

Feature Documentary Programmer | Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF)

Guest Relations Manager | DC/DOX Film Festival

Outreach + Engagement Manager | New Day Films


PAST CREDITS + EXPERIENCE

  • Senior Programmer | DC Environmental Film Festival | August 2024 - April 2025

  • Festival Consultant | Lake Tahoe Documentary Film Festival | July 2024

  • Festival Manager | DC/DOX Film Festival | March 2023 - June 2023; March 2024 - June 2024

  • Program Consultant | DC Environmental Film Festival | January 2024 – March 2024

  • Impact Producer | The Lost Bird Project + Elephant Path | September 2023 - October 2024

  • Venue Manager | DC Shorts Film Festival | September 2023

  • Festival Manager | DC/DOX Film Festival | March 2023 - June 2023

  • Program Manager | DC Environmental Film Festival | November 2016 – March 2023

  • Associate Producer | Yurumein: Homeland | December 2013 – June 2016

  • Associate Producer | Mind’s Eye Productions | January 2013 – November 2015

  • Associate Producer | Incite Pictures | April 2014 – June 2015

  • Associate Producer | AXS Lab | August 2014 - March 2015

  • Associate Producer | Welcome Change Productions | September 2012 – May 2014
    Other projects include:
    Of Two Minds (Mad Pix Films); Bill Nye: Science Guy + The Immortalists (Structure Films)

FILM FESTIVAL JUROR + ADVISORY EXPERIENCE

  • Advisory Committee | DC Environmental Film Festival

  • Advisory Committee | Lake Tahoe Documentary Film Festival

  • Juror, Multiple awards | DC Shorts Film Festival | September 2023 

  • Juror, Documentary Films | Indie Street Film Festival | September 2023

  • Juror, Multiple awards | DC Shorts Film Festival | August 2022 

  • Juror, GAIA Award | Bozcaada Int Festival of Documentary | October 2021 

  • Juror, Best Feature, Short, Film of the Decade | GreenFilmNetwork | October 2020



ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • Guest Lecturer | Film Festival Studies | Georgetown University | February 2023

  • Guest Lecturer | Cinema Through the Lens of Climate | Georgetown University | February 2023 

  • Guest Lecturer | Cinema Through the Lens of Climate | Georgetown University | October 2019


EDUCATION

Bachelor of the Arts with honors, Media Arts for Social Justice 
Pitzer College (member of the Claremont Consortium), Claremont, CA