Talent Guide
Sam Osborn
- Discipline:Director, Writer
- Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2020, Screenwriting Lab 2026
Bio
Sam Osborn is the co-director of the film Going Varsity in Mariachi, which premiered at Sundance 2023 and won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for the U.S. Documentary Competition. It went on to screen at festivals worldwide and is currently streaming on Netflix. Osborn’s first feature-length documentary as a director, Universe, about Wallace Roney, the only protege of Miles Davis, was awarded Best Music Documentary by the International Documentary Association in 2020. His short-format films have been featured on Independent Lens, Topic, LA Times and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Current Project
Teen Age RiotLogline
When teenager Emilio Monreal is dragged to Mexico City after his mother’s divorce, he finds a home among the city’s emo scene. Little does he know that he’ll play a pivotal role in the stranger-than-fiction punk vs. emo riots of 2008, battling in the streets for his right to exist.