Edward Sampson
Film and Television Producer/ Editor
Sampson is a seasoned post-production professional with a robust portfolio of short and feature films. His career began with early projects like the 2005 film LINK, directed by Paul Roukan and featuring Ben Mitchell (Shortland Street) and Shireen Shah (Jinnah). Sampson collaborated with writer/director James Napier Robertson and producer Tom Hern on the New Zealand feature film I'M NOT HARRY JENSON, where he contributed as producer, co-editor, and post-production producer. This film earned nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Film Under One Million at the 2009 Qantas New Zealand Film and Television Awards.
In 2012, Sampson edited and post-produced the feature film CRACKHEADS, which was showcased at the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico and the Austin Film Festival in Texas. CRACKHEADS won Best Self-funded Feature Film at the New Zealand Film Awards in 2013. In 2015, Sampson edited RESTORATION, a short film directed by Tim Tsiklauri and funded by the NZFC. His editing work on RESTORATION earned him a Best Editor nomination at the Academy Award-accredited Show Me Shorts Festival.
As an associate producer on the 2019 documentary series THE STORY OF RUGBY, Sampson contributed to the series' global reach across 100+ countries, including distribution on Amazon Prime. In 2020, he produced and edited TURN OF THE SCREW, directed by Alex Galvin, which won multiple awards on the film festival circuit and had a limited theatrical release in New Zealand and the USA. Currently, Sampson is producing DEVILS ON HORSES, a WWI drama-documentary exploring the profound bond between soldiers and horses during wartime.
Under Sampson Pictures, he has a range of television and feature film projects in development.