Overlook Entertainment
Updated: Mar 6, 2020
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2795989/
Sam was born in Ho Chi Minh City from a Vietnamese mother and a Honduran/Polynesian father. For a long time, Sam has been in the music industry, producing Rap & RnB music. But after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, fate and fortune show him another path.
His charisma and ambiguous look led him into the film industry. The face of the bad guy, started to realize it was probably his future. A trained martial artist, in an excellent fitness shape, Sam has integrated the world of stunts along with acting.
The stunt is a whole different world with its own rules. They are The people in the shadow, putting in danger their physical body to make the Star or the actor look good. It is a sport! Like any sport its lifetime is shorter.
Sam could fight, but he’s all the time being conscious of his ambiguous look and that he will be categorized as “The Asian fighter”. This was not his objectives & vision for his career.
Sam wants to do films for the beauty of it. The Art of Acting, the film cinematic, the beauty of visuals, the story, the venture; eventually, holding The Trophy.
Not only Sam’s library is impressive, numerous books about film directing, screenplay writing, studying methods and directors’ work; but he had the chance, all these years, to put his future skills in practice on set.
There are fantastic film schools around the world, but everyone knows that OJT (on-the-job-training) is the best school of life. We all realize that we do learn important information at school but when we put them in action at work, it is a complete different process.
The human resource factor, the finance factor, the technical factor, the unexpected factor, the negotiation, the flexibility…. Well, you got it!
Sam started to direct & write slowly, maybe 5 years ago. It can be challenging, in the film industry, to get the job. But Sam has no problem to prove and show what he can accomplish, working on his own venture.
The click happened when Sam’s wife shared a video of Dan Peña, High Performance Executive Business Success Coach and founder of QLA, where he says “Stop reading the F***** manual and just do it!”. That was it, Sam felt it was the time to seat and F***** DO IT.
In 2018/2019, Sam was contracted to direct a TV series. Shortly there after, Sam joined all Star cast for Lisa Joy Romance/Thriller title Reminiscence along side with Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson.