After twenty years in international film sales, development, production and marketing for companies including Summit Entertainment and PolyGram, and as MD for The Salt Company, involved with films including Memento, The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Elizabeth, Samantha is now a consulting producer and script doctor, specialising in honing the commercial viability of film and TV projects at any stage.

Clients have included BAFTA and Oscar winning producers David Parfitt and Gareth Ellis Unwin, director Gurinder Chadha and Creative Scotland’s FOCUS initiative. She is also an external assessor for The New Zealand Film Commission and Liverpool Film Office.

She tutors and lectures widely for clients including NFTS, BAFTA, BFI Network, Arvon, London Screenwriters’ Festival, most recently BFI and Screen Australia’s “Attagirl” initiative and as supervisor for London Film School and Exeter University. Samantha was the founder of The Vipers Nest, the creative collective for first-time filmmakers, and she still enjoys working with and mentoring up-and-coming talent, independently and professionally, with the likes of Ffilm Cymru, Encounters and Raising Films.

Samantha is now a screenwriter repped at United Agents. Her first screenplay was optioned by Eleven Films for TV, she was awarded development funding by Ffilm Cymru for her last and is currently in development on a romcom for the producer of Amy Schumer’s I Feel Pretty. She also serves on The Writers Guild of Great Britain Film Committee and Equality and Diversity Committee, is a BAFTA and BIFA juror.