First Bloom Productions stands for impactful nonfiction storytelling. Producer Samantha Bloom is consistently drawn to character-driven stories centering on overlooked, misunderstood, or controversial topics to elicit dialogue and common understanding.

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Samantha’s professional life has centered around quality documentary filmmaking. She works with Motto Pictures, an award-winning, boutique documentary production company. On a small team running multiple projects simultaneously, she has worn different hats—development producer, field producer, story producer and line producer. She also produces independently under her own banner, First Bloom Productions

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Currently, Samantha is producing projects with directors including Pernille Rose Grønkjær and Julia Schwalb that will be released in 2026.

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Previous work includes co-producing Alison Klayman’s Unfinished Business (Tribeca 2022) and Netflix’s Take Your Pills: Xanax (2022). She was a Production Coordinator on Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nominated The Mole Agent (2020); a Production Associate on Nanfu Wang’s Peabody-Winning In The Same Breath(2021), and Laura Nix’s Peabody-Winning Inventing Tomorrow (2018); a Production Assistant on Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground (2020 Cannes Film Festival), Andre Hoermann’s Emmy-nominated Ringside (2019), and Nanfu Wang’s Oscar-shortlisted One Child Nation (2019).

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Samantha is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and New York Women in Film and Television.