DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / SHOOTER
Without a scratch
Without a scratch screenings/awards:
WINNER: Night Award, Signs of the Night International Film Festival, Tucmán, Argentina (2021)
WINNER: Best Experimental/New Media, Columbus International Film + Animation Festival, Ohio (2020)
WINNER: Best Experimental, Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois (2020)
HONORABLE MENTION: Experimental Forum, CA (2020)
HONORABLE MENTION: Bangkok International Documentary Awards, Thailand (2020)
Signs of the Night International Film Festival - Tucumán, Argentina (2021)
Signs of the Night International Film Festival - Paris, France (2021)
Signs of the Night International Film Festival - Bangkok, Thailand (2021)
Signs of the Night International Film Festival - Urbino, Italy (2021)
LesGaiCineMad Madrid International LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, Spain (2020)
Antimatter Media Art Festival, Canada (2020)
Sunnyside Shorts International Film Festival, NYC (2020)
Visions du Réel Media Library, Switzerland (2020)
Inwood Film Festival, NYC (2020)
Anchorage International Film Festival, AK (2019)
The Beekeeper’s Keeper
Beekeeper's Keeper Directors and Shooters: Samantha Farinella and Megan Rossman
Beekeeper's Keeper Screenings/Awards:
WINNER: National Board of Review Student (graduate) Grant Award
WINNER Best Student Film - Inwood Film Festival
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Group Show: At Home in New York, NYC
G-2 Green Earth Film Festival
Sierra Nevada Film Festival
CMS Vatavaran - India’s only International Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum
Reel Teal Film Festival
West Texas Film Festival
South Dakota Film Festival
Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF)
Wildlife Conservation Film Festival
Beekeeper’s Keeper Press:
Atop a Manhattan Convention Center, a Harvest of Honey - New York Times
May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012 Screenings/Awards:
Hong Kong / New York Film Festival / Exchange
9FilmFest, Bangkok Thailand
FilmFest52
New Haven International Film Festival
South Dakota Film Festival
UNH's Golden Wagon Film Fest
Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX
Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX directors and shooters: Samantha Farinella and Amanda Katz
"Released at the peak of ‘the most aggressive urban development agenda ever adopted in the history of New York City,' Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX is the latest in a series of New York documentaries capturing the 'tensions of gentrification' between the communities of money and politics, and the vernacular communities of place and place-making."– CATALINA NECULAI, COVENTRY UNIVERSITY, UK
Gentrification Express Screenings/Awards:
WINNER Best Current Events Film - CUNY Film Festival
HONORABLE MENTION Cinetekton: International Film and Architecture Festival (Mexico)
HABITANTE Film Festival in Ecuador
Harlem International Film Festival
Bushwick Film Festival
Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival
The Urban History Association Biennial Conference
UPROSE
Queens Historical Society
Gentrification Express Press:
The Mysterious Disappearance of Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5B Streetcar Plan - The Village Voice
New Documentary is ‘Breaking Down the BQX,’ the Gentrification Express - BK Reader
Watch: ‘Gentrification Express’ - The Indypendent
Gentrification fears loom in new anti-Brooklyn-Queens streetcar documentary - Curbed NY
Filmmakers Come To Astoria to Denounce Gentrification - Queens Gazette
Anti-BQX Documentary to Screen in Astoria - LIC Post
Protesters Slam BQX at CUNY Meeting - Queens Chronicle
Gentrification Express Academic:
Gentrification Express featured in a paper given by Catalina Neculai of Coventry University "Rezoning Politics meets Community Resistance: Urban Documentaries of Gentrification in New York City" at the Royal Geographic Society Annual International Conference.
Gentrification Express screens at the Ninth Biennial Urban History Association Conference, "Cities at the Crossroads" Columbia, SC