Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to SAM FOX. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

SAM, appreciate you joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

Are any artists happy? Ha! I am a the literal definition of a suffering artist. But the irony is that there’s a masochistic quality to most all artists, especially filmmakers, and I therefore feel that if we weren’t suffering, we wouldn’t be fulfilled. If it was easy, we wouldn’t do it. The only thing I’d like from a real job is money, but if money doesn’t buy you happiness than I may as well get chummy with being a suffering artist.

SAM, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a director, writer, producer in genre cinema and have been making highly stylized films through my production company Foxy Films since 2016. I would call my style absurdist horror comedy, drawing inspiration from the colorful psychedelic horror films of the 1970s and 80s and the ridiculous British comedies I grew up with; Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Spike Mulligan, etc.

I was dedicated to becoming a surrealist painter up until the age of 18 when I segued into film. It was an easy transition to make, being that I’ve grown up in Los Angeles and I consider what I do as a filmmaker like painting an image within a frame. I would say that my films have more of a visual quality to them, rich colors, elaborate set design, while my stories are primarily based upon puns, double entendres, and the silly ideas I have when I’m all alone.

My current film, FCK’N NUTS, is touring the genre film festival circuit as we speak and it’s a prime example of my ambitions in visual storytelling mixed with my refined inability to properly write a real story. But despite the lack of surface depth (how’s that for an oxymoron) FCK’N NUTS is a very serious story, told through a comedic lens, of my childhood trauma and how painful it was to grow up in the dysfunctional family system that I was born into.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

For the last 15 years that I have been working as an artist, 80% of the time I hear “no”, 15% of the time I get no response, and once in a while, a meager 5%, I hear a yes and that is enough to keep me going for another year. You have to be slightly delusional and have an unwavering belief in yourself that your story is worthy of being told, otherwise this business (showbusiness) will eat you alive.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I think it’s pretty unreal and so incredibly rewarding that one day I wake up with a seedling of an idea, and within a few weeks I have turned that idea into a story on paper, and within a few months I have collected a crew friends and fellow believers that want to dedicate their blood, sweat and tears into facilitating that story and bringing it to life, and a few months after that, that seedling of an idea is actualized, on screen, with sets, actors, music, being presented in a theatre in front of an audience of strangers. It’s wild!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.samfoxyfilms.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theothersamfox/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-fox-13961a78/
• Other: https://vimeo.com/user17224875