Sam Price-Waldman

Sam Price-Waldman is a documentary filmmaker working at the intersection of long-form journalism and cinematic storytelling. His work focuses on character-driven stories shaped by close access, trust, and time.

As a director and cinematographer, he has worked across short-form reporting and multi-year documentary projects for HBO, Netflix, Showtime, The Atlantic, PBS, and National Geographic. His most recent short documentary, The Life We Have, screened at over 20 film festivals and was awarded Best Short Documentary at AmDocs, the Audience Award at Mountainfilm, and a 2026 Webby Award.

Before transitioning to independent work, Sam was a staff producer, cinematographer, and editor at The Atlantic, where he reported on science, environment, and culture.

As a Ted Scripps Fellow, he will explore the emotional dimensions of environmental change and how different ways of knowing shape human relationships to the natural world, while developing a new long-form documentary project.