Sam M.

I bring a documentary filmmaker's eye to every project. I'm a director, writer and editor, and co-founder of Apollo Studios, a film and video production company in Pasadena, California and Park City, Utah that I run with producer Annie Menendez. For the past five years I've worked continuously with PlayStation Studios, cutting trailers, sizzles and campaign spots for franchises like Marvel's Wolverine, Helldivers, Gran Turismo and The Last of Us. My work also spans hundreds of commercials, documentaries streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video, and feature films. Hire me as a director, or hand us the whole project: development, writing, casting, crew, shoot, edit, color and sound, delivered by one team with me as your single point of contact. My longest Upwork collaboration has grown past $150K. Clients include PlayStation Studios, HBO, Paramount+, NBC, MTV Entertainment Studios, PBS, F1, DirecTV, Salesforce, Courvoisier and Purina. What I do: • Documentaries, docuseries and feature films: writing, directing, producing and editing • Commercials and brand films, from :15 social spots to TV • AI commercials, directed like real spots with AI as one more tool • Trailers and game marketing for PlayStation (The Last of Us, PS5, Helldivers) • High-end editing and motion graphics in Premiere Pro and After Effects Selected credits: The Real Cost (Apple TV, writer/director) · Hurricane Maria: Stories from the Storm (Prime Video, director) · Priced Out of Paradise (co-director) · Stranded (feature in production, writer/director) Top Rated Plus · 260+ Upwork jobs · Native English and Spanish Send me your project and I'll reply with an approach and a quote.