Sam Neave is a three-time Emmy nominated writer, director, producer and editor.
He has written and directed three features: the first of these, Cry Funny Happy, premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. His latest, Almost in Love, starring Alex Karpovsky and Alan Cumming, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
As an editor, he has worked most recently on Andrew Jarecki’s The Jinx: Part Two (HBO) and The Alabama Solution (Sundance 2025). His resume includes many award-winning features including Karpovsky’s debut feature, The Hole Story, and Ferenc Toth’s Unknown Soldier (for which he won the Best Editor Award at the Woodstock Film Festival). He was also a long-time collaborator of the renowned Iranian visual artist, Shirin Neshat, and helped to edit her first feature film, Women Without Men, which won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
He is currently in production on a documentary about the Scottish football team, Partick Thistle FC (Exec Produced by Academy Award winner, Charles B. Wessler).
Sam is Iranian by birth, grew up in the United Kingdom and now lives in New York City.
“A director of true vision… Almost in Love is rapturously great.” New York Magazine
“Fascinating… a bravura display of hand-held camera work, sound design and improvisational performance…” New York Times
“A dance that’s perfectly choreographed… constantly engaging.” Washington Post
“Cry Funny Happy is a beautiful, complex, ensemble work and contains some of the greatest acting performances I’ve seen in the last five or ten years…”
Ray Carney (author of Cassavetes on Cassavetes)