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Samantha Aldana

  • Director
  • Art Department
  • Production Designer
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Samantha Aldana is an award-winning director and writer. She holds a BA in Film Directing from Columbia College Chicago.

Her first feature film, Shapeless, was selected as a 2020 fellow of The Gotham Narrative Lab and will premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Samantha is an alum of the NBC/Universal Diversity TV Director Program where she had the opportunity to shadow on SYFY's The Magicians and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samantha is the recipient of the Belize Film Commissioner's Emerging Storyteller Feature Film Award for her feature film in development, Little Lying Wild. Little Lying Wild was also selected to participate in the Tribeca Film Institute Network and the Emerging Voices Program at the New Orleans Film Festival.
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      • 2 wins total

    Known for

    Si (2015)
    Si
    Short
    • Director(as Samantha Smith)
    • 2015
    These Wild Things (2016)
    These Wild Things
    Short
    • Director(as Samantha Smith)
    • 2016
    The Melancholy Man (2017)
    The Melancholy Man
    6.9
    Short
    • Director(as Samantha Smith)
    • 2017
    Jamie Neumann and Joshua Sienkiewicz in Sunday Water (2014)
    Sunday Water
    Short
    • Director(as Samantha Smith)
    • 2014

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    • Etheria Film Night 2023 (2023)
      Etheria Film Night 2023
      6.2
      • Director (segment "Angels")
      • 2023
    • Bite Size Halloween (2020)
      Bite Size Halloween
      6.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Shapeless (2021)
      Shapeless
      4.0
      • Director
      • 2021
    • The Melancholy Man (2017)
      The Melancholy Man
      6.9
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2017
    • These Wild Things (2016)
      These Wild Things
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2016
    • Jacqueline Scislowski, Ryan Spacone, Samantha Aldana, and Cleo Magill in Porcelain (2015)
      Porcelain
      6.8
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2015
    • Si (2015)
      Si
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2015
    • Jamie Neumann and Joshua Sienkiewicz in Sunday Water (2014)
      Sunday Water
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2014
    • Colin Sphar and Samantha Aldana in Con Vex (2014)
      Con Vex
      Short
      • Director (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2014

    Art Department



    • The Parallax Theory (2015)
      The Parallax Theory
      5.5
      TV Mini Series
      • set dresser
      • illustrator (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2015

    Production Designer



    • Noble Creatures (2019)
      Noble Creatures
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2019
    • These Wild Things (2016)
      These Wild Things
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2016
    • Gabe White in Mest' (2016)
      Mest'
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2016
    • Atchafalaya (2016)
      Atchafalaya
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2016
    • Escalante Lundy in The Lot (2015)
      The Lot
      Short
      • Production Designer
      • 2015
    • Dandelion (2015)
      Dandelion
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2015
    • Of a Promise Broken (2014)
      Of a Promise Broken
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Samantha Smith)
      • 2014

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    • Alternative name
      • Samantha Smith

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