Sam Fleischner grew up in an artistic family in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated with honors in film from Wesleyan University (2006), a school that has produced many top names in contemporary American film. After moving to New York he worked for a time as a projectionist at Anthology Film Archives, an institution advocating for the preservation and exhibition of avant-garde and experimental films. An interest in such movies is evident in his own work, which often thwarts the traditional aesthetic canon. His experimental documentary Below the Brain (2011), an experience in itself that records Brooklyn´s West Indian Day Parade, has thus far attracted the greatest attention. His codirected feature debut, Wah Do Dem (2009), about a boy who heads to Jamaica alone, was presented at the Los Angeles festival. The element of sudden isolation is also the plot basis of his second feature Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.
48. MFF Karlovy Vary
