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American film director
Sam Cullman
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Sam Cullman
(born 1976
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) is a
cinematographer
, director and
editor
of documentaries, and the founder of Yellow Cake Films, a
film production
company.
Cullman graduated from
Brown University
in 1999, receiving a degree in Urban Studies and Visual Arts.
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Career
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Cullman was one of the
camera operators
on
Why We Fight
, which won
Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for documentaries
in 2005. He was a
cinematographer
on the 2007 documentary
King Corn
. Cullman was a producer and director of photography on
The House I Live In
, which was the Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance 2012 and was the recipient of the "React to Film" Award at Silverdocs. He was also a cinematographer on
Watchers of the Sky
(2014).
On January 24, 2012, Cullman and
Marshall Curry
were nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
for the film
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
.
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At the
84th Academy Awards
, their film lost to
Undefeated
.
In 2012, Cullman and Benjamin Rosen made
Black Cherokee
, a
short subject
, premiering in November 2012 as part of
DOC NYC
, a documentary film festival.
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Cullman is a director, producer and the cinematographer of
Art and Craft
(2014), with director and producer Jennifer Grausman and co-Director Mark Becker. On December 2, 2014,
Art and Craft
was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2016
Art and Craft
was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming category.
Cullman directed
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary.
Filmography
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As a director
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Personal life
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Cullman is married to activist Purva Panday Cullman.
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