Samantha Farinella is a New York City-based queer feminist filmmaker and founder of One Angry Woman Productions. She has produced and directed six documentaries and four narrative shorts that have been featured in over 70 national and international film festivals including the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest: L.A. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Galway Film Festival, and The Guggenheim Museum.
Her most recent feature documentary LEFT LANE has eight awards to date, including honors in New Zealand, Paris, New York, Detroit and Kansas City among other places.
She also has extensive television production experience, producing award-winning behind the scenes and promo spots for numerous series including Degrassi: The Next Generation and South of Nowhere.
Farinella was brought to Madrid as Director of Photography for a documentary covering the response to the terrorist attacks in both NYC and Madrid. In November 2001 she was commissioned to photograph political graffiti art throughout Chile with a grant from Yale University.
Samantha has insatiable wanderlust, is an avid fan of the New York Yankees and enjoys a well made cocktail.
