Sam Okafor

The person

Sam cut his teeth on the Blender open-movie projects — animation, then editorial, then cinematography — and has been chasing the same question ever since: how much story can you carry with no dialogue at all?

He is currently developing his first feature, The Long Drive, a two-hander set across one night in West Texas. The screenplay is available to read on this site.

Selected collaborations:

  • Blender Institute — open movie team
  • DKA Film Fraternity — cinematography workshops
Storyboards are a contract you sign with your future, exhausted self.

Trophies & laurels

2026
Second Rounder
Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2012
Best Open Movie
Fictional Festival of Testing
Best Visual Effects
Austin Shorts Fest
2010
Official Selection
Annecy International Animation Festival

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