Samuel Summer
Acting
Biography
Samuel Summer is from Portland, Oregon. He studied theatre with a focus in acting at the University of Iowa and has been working in film, television, and theatre since 2013. Samuel has acted in films appearing at Cannes and many other festivals; winning awards for acting performance at several. In 2019, Samuel and his collaborators won the Portland 48 hour Film Project for which he also won Best Actor. The film was then selected as part of the top 15 films at the International 48 Hour Film awards in Rotterdam.
Known For
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Grimm
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
Portlandia
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
Green Room
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
Clementine
Carmen, by Chloë Sevigny, is the 13th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales, the short-film series by women who critically celebrate femininity in the 21st century. Carmen has a loose, voyeuristic, improvisational mood that reflects Sevigny’s interest, making a short-film about process, being a woman, celebrity and ego.
Carmen
Caleb, in love with his bartender, calls in to La Contessa's famous love hot-line for advice on how to ask her out.
La Contessa
A true crime podcast host sits down with an Indigenous woman to record her sister’s cold case, but their individual intentions for telling this story come to a head as they examine the night in question.
No Spectators Allowed
Pull Stop is a film that uses public transportation as a "vehicle" of personal discovery. It chronicles the lead character, Carey on her one year odyssey of public transportation and the people she meets along the way. As she becomes an oracle of social commentary she also finds herself.