Bio

Sam Henriques, cinematographer

Two time Emmy award winner Sam Henriques is in production on a feature Documentary called Forward March. Recent feature long form credits include: Cured, A Basement in Queens, and Hate Thy Neighbor. Recent short comedies include: The Moms and Karens. His short film about inventor Dean Kamen; Sling Shot premiered at and won third place at Sundance Film Festival in the Focus Forward: Short Films Big Ideas series. The feature length version of Sling Shot can be streamed on Netflix. Also of note: Jim Norton; Mouthful of Shame. Sam’s documentary works include: The Good Soldier, which won him an Emmy as Producer, Portrait of Wally, Burning the Future, Good People Go To Hell, Nursery University,The Klezmatics, A Cantor’s Tale, and My Architect; Louis Kahn. Henriques is best known for shooting Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and Academy Award nominated film Angola; The Farm, Produced and Directed by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus, about inmates at the notorious Angola State Penitentiary (Primetime Emmy non-fiction Cinematography). Also of note is Riding The Rails for American Experience which won a Peabody award. Sam has filmed for UNICEF on health issues such as Lead in the United States, Polio in Ethiopia, AIDS in South Africa, and child labor in the Balkans. Sam began his career as a Camera Assistant on Academy Award winning films: Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision and Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners Poison and Paris Is Burning. Additionally: Eyes on the Prize, and various episodes for American Masters and Nova. Sam regularly shoots Podcast Vlog content on FinTech and finance. Sam has taught 35mm film and Cinematography on a graduate school level at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and graduated with a BA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Sam is a member of IATSE Local 600.