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Sam Low Filmography

Filming FastCars - Sam taking Sound - Bob Burns Filming

Laguna Seca Racetrack

No Hair Day
Videographer
Installed DeCordova Museum, October 2000; PBS broadcast Fall 2000

Discover - The World of Science
Producer, director, writer for two segments (of five) in hour long documentary on the science and technology of speed, for The Discovery Channel. Broadcast April 16, 1997.

Fast Cars
Producer, director, writer: a one hour NOVA program on the science and technology of high-tech Indy Car racing. Partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Broadcast May 23, 1995.

Fast Cars and Science
Co-Executive Producer: four 15 minute videos for in-school use to present fundamental lessons in science using Indy Car racing as a model. Funded by the National Science Foundation, 1994.

Out of the Past
Series Producer: This eight-part PBS series focuses on the rise and fall of the Maya and other civilizations as revealed by the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Broadcast Spring 1993 by PBS' Adult Learning Service, and Summer 1993 by PBS nationally. Sold to many international TV venues. A co-production of WQED-TV, PBS/Pittsburgh and Cambridge Studios, Inc.

Out of the Past
Producer, director, writer: Collapse and New Worlds, two hour-long programs in the Out of the Past series.

The Ring of Truth
Producer/Director/Writer: Change and Mapping, two hour long documentaries in this six part series, a personal view of the process of science by eminent physicist Philip Morrison. Broadcast nationally by PBS on October 27 and November 3, in 1987.

Star Wars
Co-Editor/Writer: Videotape concerning the dangers of war in space. Client: Union of Concerned Scientists. 1984.

Micronesian proa - still from The Navigators

The Navigators
Producer/Director/Writer: Documentary on the settlement of the Pacific by the Polynesian people. Locations in Micronesia, Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii. PBS national broadcast in 1983 and consistently shown on most cable TV venues and nationally and internationally.

Divers excavate an ancient shipwreck

The Ancient Mariners
Producer/Writer: ODYSSEY documentary on ancient seafaring as revealed by underwater archaeology. Locations in Greece, Turkey, Boston and Texas. Broadcast 1980 nationally on PBS and the BBC CHRONICLE Series

Ongka's Big Moka
Producer/Writer (remake): Re-edited and extended this 60-min. Granada International Film for ODYSSEY. Broadcast nationally on PBS in 1980.

Maasai Women
Producer/Writer (remake): Updated for PBS broadcast with additional footage and animation this National Film Board of Canada documentary for ODYSSEY. Broadcast nationally on PBS in 1980.

Cree Hunters
Producer/Writer (remake): Updated for PBS broadcast with additional footage and animation this National Film Board of Canada documentary for ODYSSEY. Broadcast nationally on PBS in 1980.

The Sakuddei
Producer/Writer (remake): Re-edited and extended this Granada International Film for ODYSSEY. Broadcast nationally on PBS in 1980.

Odyssey Series
Senior Researcher: Staff anthropologist for this PBS series responsible for assisting with the production of 25 one-hour programs for national PBS broadcast. 1978-1980.

Seaplanes at Moosehead
Producer, director, writer: thirty minute documentary on the bush pilots of northern Maine, WCVB-10 and MPBN, 1978.

The Maine Festival
Producer, director, writer: sixty minute documentary on the Maine festival of art, dance and crafts, broadcast on MPBN, Maine PBS, 1978.

Collage
Segment producer, director, writer; a weekly 30 minute magazine of the arts for MPBN, Maine PBS, 1978.

The Saint Mary
Slide tape about the last of Maine's famous "downeast" sailing ships, 1976.

Jeri Sopanen and Sam filming at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Fast Cars



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