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Sam Peter Jackson

Hypnotic

2022 First Look Project - Runner-up (Comedy)

Sam grew up in a creative household in small-town Germany and moved to London at the age of 19, where he studied acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As an actor he most notably appeared in the BAFTA-winning “Nuremberg – Goering’s Last Stand”, but soon moved to playwriting to follow his passion for telling comedic stories with LGBTQ+ themes.

His play Public Property ran at Trafalgar Studios in the West End and earned him a 2010 WhatsOnStage Award nomination. In the same year Sam co-wrote and presented the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary First Cut: The Other Michael Jackson (about his father singer/songwriter Mick Jackson), which started a move towards film. Since then he has written and directed six short films, as well as worked as a MoCap Performance Director on the 2018 VR film Lucid, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

His latest short Clothes & Blow screened at over 20 festivals, won 4 international awards and was released by Peccadillo Pictures as part of Boys On Film 21: Beautiful Secret on DVD/BluRay and via Dekkoo on Amazon Prime worldwide.

He loves classic 80s romcoms and indie auteur dramedies. Some of his favourite directors are Pedro Almodovar, Joachim Trier, Lynn Shelton, Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, Kenneth Lonergan and Richard Linklater.

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