SAMANTHA K. TAN is a Los Angeles based Producer and Writer whose professional work consists of working at Max as a Line Producer’s Assistant, co-writing and producing Megan Lee’s En Pointe which premiered at the Academy Awards and BAFTA Qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival in July 2023, and producing AJ Starzak’s My Monster and I, which won Best Sci-Fi Short at the 2023 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and at the San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival. Not only has her dramedy series, Ambitious, got accepted into the 2022 Sundance and The Asian American Foundation Fellowship & Scholarship program, but she also co-produced an animated short called Tree’s Blood, starring Ayo Edebiri and Rose Byrne, that partnered with Nickelodeon, Paramount and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. As a Vietnamese-Chinese-American filmmaker, Samantha is extremely excited to share more diverse and thought provoking narratives on and off screen.
