Sam Feder is a Peabody Award-nominated film director and writer. Sam created The Netflix Original Documentary, DISCLOSURE (Sundance, 2020), and is currently developing the scripted TV series, WEIMAR with Executive Producers Lilly Wachowski and Bruce Cohen, about trans life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Sam is also writing and directing an episode for The Netflix Original animation series, Calling All Superheroes. Sam’s films explore the intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race, class, and gender and their filmmaking practice models inclusion and equity in the industry. Sam’s films have been programmed by Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, CPH:DOX, MOMA PS-1, The British Film Institute, The Hammer Museum, and in hundreds of film festivals around the world. Sam’s work has been supported by Ford/JustFilms, Fork Films, California Humanities, The Jerome Foundation, Perspective Fund, Threshold, IFP Film Week, Good Pitch USA/Doc Society, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo artist residency.

Sam Feder is a documentary filmmaker. Cited by Indiewire as one of the "exciting trans filmmakers shaking up Hollywood," Sam's award-winning documentaries center the intersections of race, class, gender, and conflict within the queer and trans community. Sam's current film--Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen, which is being executive produced by Laverne Cox--examines the images of trans people that permeate popular culture and the ideologies behind them.

Sam Feder has created several award-winning documentaries that center the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and conflict within the queer and trans community. Sam seeks to connect transgender struggles and liberation to the context of the present and legacy of the past by showing that our communal history makes our present lives possible. Sam's second feature Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger was named one of the best LGBT documentaries of 2014 by The Advocate, and cited by IndieWire as one of the must-see films of the 2014.

Sam Feder is a trans filmmaker whose work explores the visibility of trans lives at the intersections of race, class, sexuality, community conflict and empowerment. Sam's second feature documentary Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger was named one of the best LGBT documentaries of 2014 by The Advocate, and cited by IndieWire as one of the must-see films of the 2014 festival circuit. Sam's films have won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and multiple international best feature film awards (Beacon Film Fest, Seattle LGBT Film Fest, TranScreen in The Netherlands, Identities in Austria, Gaze in Ireland, TransLations in Seattle). Sam has received national grants, fellowships, and residencies including those from The Jerome Foundation, Frameline Completion Fund, Astraea Foundation for Social Justice, and MacDowell and Yaddo Colony Fellowships. Sam has had screenings and lectures in over twenty countries, at film festivals, museums, galleries, and universities including MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, the British Film Institute, Hot Springs Doc Festival, Outfest, Frameline, NewFest, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Sam's films are distributed by Women Make Movies, Kanopy, and Frameline.