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Sam Shapson

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Director
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Sam Shapson
Sam Shapson is known for Control Freak (2025), Missing (2023) and Clock (2023).
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    Known for

    Control Freak (2025)
    Control Freak
    4.6
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2025
    Nia Long and Storm Reid in Missing (2023)
    Missing
    7.1
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(additional photography)
    • 2023
    Clock (2023)
    Clock
    5.0
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2023
    Jesse Eisenberg in Manodrome (2023)
    Manodrome
    4.7
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2023

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Control Freak (2025)
      Control Freak
      4.6
      • first assistant director
      • 2025
    • Push
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • Laz Alonso, Abbie Cornish, Silas Weir Mitchell, Moon Bloodgood, Justin H. Min, and Josefine Lindegaard in Detained (2024)
      Detained
      4.9
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • Rainn Wilson in Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss (2023)
      Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss
      7.8
      TV Series
      • associate director
      • 2023
    • Clock (2023)
      Clock
      5.0
      • first assistant director
      • 2023
    • Jesse Eisenberg in Manodrome (2023)
      Manodrome
      4.7
      • first assistant director
      • 2023
    • Nia Long and Storm Reid in Missing (2023)
      Missing
      7.1
      • first assistant director: additional photography
      • 2023
    • Oliver Tree: Suitcase Full of Cash
      Music Video
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Rattled! (2022)
      Rattled!
      4.6
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Pete Davidson, Colson Baker, Gata, Megan Fox, Boo Johnson, Whitney Cummings, Becky G, Zach Villa, Dove Cameron, and Mod Sun in Good Mourning (2022)
      Good Mourning
      3.1
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Who You Are (2019)
      Who You Are
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2019
    • Machine Gun Kelly & Yungblud & Travis Barker: I Think I'm Okay (2019)
      Machine Gun Kelly & Yungblud & Travis Barker: I Think I'm Okay
      8.6
      Music Video
      • first assistant director
      • 2019
    • Milk and Cookies: Walter's Revenge (2018)
      Milk and Cookies: Walter's Revenge
      5.5
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2018
    • Mysterious Ways (2018)
      Mysterious Ways
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2018
    • Poppy in I'm Poppy (2018)
      I'm Poppy
      5.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2018

    Director

    • The Offer (2021)
      The Offer
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Refuge
      Short
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Thresher (2014)
      Thresher
      6.6
      Short
      • co-director
      • 2014
    • The Treehouse (2012)
      The Treehouse
      7.5
      Short
      • Director
      • 2012
    • Harvest (2012)
      Harvest
      9.0
      Short
      • Director
      • 2012

    Editorial Department

    • Helix (2014)
      Helix
      6.7
      TV Series
      • post-production assistant
      • 2014
    • Callie Thorne in Necessary Roughness (2011)
      Necessary Roughness
      7.0
      TV Series
      • post-production assistant
      • 2013

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      Good Mourning, his second feature as a first assistant director, won the 2022 Razzie Award for Worst Director.

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