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Emmy-Award winning producer/director Alicia Sams has extensive experience in both documentary and feature films. Currently she is producing DISASTER IS MY MUSE! a film about Pulitzer...
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Dec 16, 2010 · Alicia Sams. “Cultural diplomacy.“ Two words, each full of meaning. Taken together they encompass a universe of opportunity. As a term it sounds rather official, formal. In practice, it boils down to reaching people on a human level.
May 29, 2016 · Alicia Sams is a filmmaker known primarily for her documentaries. Her best-known work was the 2009 Emmy-winning film By the People, about President Obama’s 2008 race to the White House. Sams is also the Director of the Speaker Series at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is a 2009 documentary film produced by Edward Norton broadcast in November 2009 on HBO, which follows Barack Obama and various members of his campaign team, including David Axelrod, through the two years leading up to the United States presidential election on November 4, 2008.
Alicia Sams is currently producer/director of Arab American Stories, a 13-episode series for public television launching in 2012. Her most recent film, as producer/director (with Amy Rice), is the Emmy-Award winning film By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premiered on HBO in 2009.
Alicia Sams, Director; By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama; HBO; Green Film Company, Citi Productions, Class 5 Films and GOOD in association with HBO Documentary Films
Alicia Sams has extensive experience working in both documentary and fiction films. Her most recent film as director is By the People: The Election of Barack Obama , which chronicles the journey of Barack Obama from before the announcement of his Presidential campaign to the White House, and premiered on HBO in November, 2009.
