BIO

Samantha Culp is a writer, filmmaker and strategist based in Los Angeles after a decade in greater China. Her work examines the changing flows of global culture, emergent creative economies, and mobilizing storytelling for social change.

For Netflix, she has produced the criminal justice documentary series’ “The Confession Tapes” (2017-2019, nominated for best episodic series by the International Documentary Association) and “Exhibit A” (2019), and was consulting producer on the global food series “Ugly Delicious” (2018). She is a consulting producer on the forthcoming film adaptation of Hao Jingfang’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novella “Folding Beijing”.

As a journalist and critic, her writing has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic, New York Magazine, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times T Magazine, and Art in America. From 2009-2019, she was a contributing editor of China’s leading bilingual art magazine, LEAP (艺术界).

Previously, she co-directed Paloma Powers, a consultancy developing artist-led solutions, as well as CultureTM, a platform researching brands as cultural patrons. Her clients for strategy and experiences include Apple, Airbnb, GE, Gucci, and Japan’s Ministry of Culture. She’s a lecturer in the arts business graduate program of Claremont Graduate University (formerly Sotheby’s Institute of Art), and serves on the board of the non-profit arts organization China Residencies Network. She was recently a literary arts fellow at Banff Centre for the Arts, and at the Producer’s Guild of America’s Power of Diversity Workshop.