Samantha Aldana is a highly accomplished and award-winning director and writer, boasting a robust educational background that includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Directing from the esteemed Columbia College Chicago.
Her impressive professional trajectory includes the creation of her first feature film, Shapeless, which garnered significant recognition by being selected as a 2020 fellow of The Gotham Narrative Lab and is set to make its premiere at the prestigious 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
Samantha's professional journey has also been marked by her participation in the NBC/Universal Diversity TV Director Program, where she had the unique opportunity to shadow on the sets of SYFY's The Magicians and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Moreover, Samantha has received the Belize Film Commissioner's Emerging Storyteller Feature Film Award for her feature film in development, Little Lying Wild, which has also been selected to participate in the Tribeca Film Institute Network and the Emerging Voices Program at the New Orleans Film Festival.
