Sam Cullman

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Sam Cullman (born 1976) is an American documentary filmmaker who works as a cinematographer, director, and editor. He founded Yellow Cake Films and graduated from Brown University in 1999 with degrees in Urban Studies and Visual Arts.

Cullman has worked on many notable films. He was a camera operator on Why We Fight, which won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in 2005. He was the cinematographer for King Corn (2007). He produced and was director of photography on The House I Live In, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2012 and received the Silverdocs React to Film Award. He also shot Watchers of the Sky (2014).

In 2012, Cullman and Marshall Curry were nominated for an Academy Award for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, which did not win. That year he and Benjamin Rosen created Black Cherokee, a short film that premiered at DOC NYC. He directed, produced, and did cinematography for Art and Craft (2014) with Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker; it was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 2014 and earned an Emmy nomination in 2016 for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming.

Cullman directed ReMastered: The Lion’s Share, which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary. He is married to activist Purva Panday Cullman.