Sam Soh

SAM SOH

People, places, projects

I explore people and places through moving image, shifting between documentary and fiction. Alongside this, I co-run Planetworld, a street-casting service, and Set Space, a design-led location platform — extending my practice into resources for the screen industry.

WORK WITH ME

Available for moving image production, cultural videography, and collaborative projects in documentary, casting and locations. Get in touch if you’d like to work together.

sam@soh.id.au
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Are.na

SHOWREEL

EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS

Upcoming

Guns, God and Old Glory (upcoming)
Mixed Zoning
Oct 29 - Nov 1 2025

Past

Habitat Echoes
Overshare Video Festival
2023

Music Video Showcase
Fantastic Film Festival
2023

Here, for now (Curator)
Dogmilk VODmilk
2021

WHO I’VE WORKED WITH

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Visual Arts
Monash University, 2014-2018

Video Storytelling Semester Intensive
DMJX (Danish School of Media and Journalism), 2017

Affiliated Employment

VicScreen
Location Resources Officer
2023 - Present

Runway Journal
Board Member/Digital Producer
2023-2025

Simba Global
Senior Content Specialist
2022-2023

Credits

Displaced
Location Manager
Victoria
2025

Nick Ward - Gimme (Music Video)
Casting Director
Victoria
2023

Aftertaste S2
Art Department Assistant
South Australia
2022

The Amazing Race S5
Art Department Assistant
Tasmania
2021

Hell on Wheels S4
Background Cast
Calgary, Canada
2014

Awards

Best of Festival
BEA Festival of Media Arts
USA
2018

Finalist
Zayed University Middle East Film Festival
Abu Dhabi
2018

Finalist
WJEC Paris
France
2018

World Food Books Award
Monash University
Australia
2016

Last Updated August 15 2025

SELECTED WORK

Set Space

✹ Research & Strategy
✹ Software Development

A design-led location management platform for location managers, filmmakers, studios and agencies. Built to simplify the organising and sharing of film locations, Set Space is currently in early access and launching in October 2025. Co-created with James Meadowcroft.

https://set.space

Planetworld

✹ Casting
✹ Street Scouting
✹ Documentary Production

An ongoing collaboration created with Matt Shaw focused on street casting and character-driven storytelling. Planetworld moves between talent discovery, video portraits and documentary production. The casting and scouting side of the practice is developed together with Lucie McMahon.

@planetwrrld

planetworld.biz

Dark Mofo

✹ Video Production
✹ Client Project
✹ Event Documentation

Videography for Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival, capturing large-scale performances, exhibitions and events. Produced in collaboration with Conor Castles-Lynch.

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Guns, God and Old Glory (2025)

✹ Documentary Production
✹ Exhibition
✹ Cultural Archiving

A portrait of aging America captured on the road before the 2024 election. Through photo and video, familiar symbols of the American Dream are explored up close: tired, proud and still holding on. In collaboration with photographer Matt Shaw.

This body of work will be exhibited at Mixed Zoning Gallery from October 29 to November 1, 2025.

Archival Project (Untitled Feature Documentary 2025)

✹ Documentary Production
✹ Research
✹ Cultural Archiving

A long-form collaborative work with Lucie McMahon and Lucy Kostos exploring cultural preservation through archival storytelling.

This project is currently in development.

Malaysia Fieldwork (2023)

✹ Documentary Production
✹ Interviews
✹ Festival Screening

A series of video portraits and location-based scene studies filmed across Malaysia, exploring my roots and cultural heritage, as well as everyday rituals and landscapes. The work combines interview and observational footage, drawing on my interest in place-based storytelling and cultural archiving.

An edited cut screened at Overshare Video Festival in 2023.

Other Cultural Collaborations

✹ Video Production
✹ Exhibition & Event Content
✹ Client Projects

Producing video content for a range of cultural organisations, festivals and galleries, including:

ACMI – documentary and exhibition content
Beaker Street Festival – science and arts festival coverage
ACAE Gallery – artist interviews and exhibition films
Bett Gallery – exhibition documentation
Melbourne Polytechnic – exhibition video material

Music Videos

✹ Casting
✹ Directing
✹ Production

Contributing to music video productions where casting and character-driven storytelling play a central role.

Nick Ward – “Gimme” (Casting Director, 2023)
Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird – “Gabriel’s Horn” (Co-Director, Casting, Cinematography, Editing 2022)

Nus Essan Rumantschs (We Are Romansh) (2017)

✹ Documentary Production
✹ Directing
✹ International Film Festivals

My graduate documentary from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Nus Essan Rumantschs, explores the endangered Swiss language Romansh through intimate portraiture of its speakers. Screened and awarded internationally (USA, UAE, France), it reflects my early commitment to documentary as a way of preserving cultural memory.

Produced in collaboration with Nada Mawsouf and Conor Castles-Lynch.

Activity Club

✹ Research & Strategy
✹ Software Development
✹ Community Building

An evolving digital project created with James Meadowcroft, building a platform that fosters people–place connection through the sharing, discovery and organisation of events and activities.

activityclub.world