Samantha Farinella is a New York City veteran, now Honolulu-based filmmaker and founder of One Angry Woman Productions. Her work has aired on PBS, screened in over a hundred film festivals and won over twenty-five awards.
Farinella's latest feature length project, Hunting in Wartime, premiered nationally on PBS and won the Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in Documentary and the Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award at the Inwood Film Festival in NYC. It has screened in over thirty venues including the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, The National Archives, the Cambodian International Film Festival, the American Indian Film Festival and the Hanoi Cinematheque.
Her first feature documentary, Left Lane, won eight awards including honors in New Zealand, Paris and New York. It received official selection in over fifty national and international festivals including: San Francisco's Frameline, Out in Africa (South Africa's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), Galway Film Fleadh, Barcelona's Kosmopolis and opening night at Boston's LGBT Film Festival.
Her most recent short film, Without a Scratch, has screened in over fifteen festivals and won five awards including Best Experimental at the Big Muddy Film Festival and Best Experimental at the Columbus International Film and Animation Film Festival.
Samantha also has extensive television production and advertising experience with media companies including Viacom, The History Channel, Animal Planet, PBS and Hogarth Worldwide.
Farinella is an Assistant Professor in the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii - West Oahu.