News

Friday 17 May 2024 Lots of buzz at the Cannes Film Festival.

Monday 1 January 2024 Happy New Year, everyone - get those cameras rolling!

Wednesday 18 October 2023 Team Sleeper is going strong in post-production on an exciting UK/Irish feature!

Thursday 7 September 2023 After premiering HOPE GAP and VITA & VIRGINIA at TIFF, it's good to be back at the festival!

Tuesday 8 August 2023 Good luck to ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN filmmakers Lena Vurma and Thor Klein with their new feature LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT. Cameras rolling!

Monday 17 July 2023 BORDERS, the new Panorama issue, featuring Nicolas' creative nonfiction piece THE NEAPOLITAN ATAVISM, is out now!

Wednesday 14 June 2023 Check out Nicolas' latest story A LITTLE FIRE BURNING on Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature.

Friday 19 May 2023 In Cannes - rainy but buzzy!.

Monday 3 April 2023 Experience the streets of London through the eyes of Nicolas' short story Too Early for Birdsong.

Thursday 30 March 2023 Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place and Nature's SPACE issue is out - with the fiction section curated by Nicolas Sampson.

Friday 17 February 2023 Greetings from a buzzy Berlinale!

Tuesday 3 January 2023 Happy New Year, everyone. Have a fantastic film year!

Wednesday 28 December 2022 Congratulations to composer Ian Arber, who's nominated for a Jerry Goldsmith Award for the SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL score.

Monday 19 December 2022 Take in Nicolas' poem DAWN'S BLOSSOM, published in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature.

Tuesday 13 November 2022 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN is the closing night film of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival.

Thursday 3 November 2022 Watch ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN on MagentaTV in Germany.

Tuesday 11 October 2022 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is out on DVD (region 1) in the US!

Friday 22 July 2022 KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME opens in the UK in select cinemas and streams online at Altitude.film.

Thursday 30 June 2022 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN releases theatrically in Germany, the home of the movie's director - Thor Klein.

Tuesday 10 May 2022 One week until the Cannes Film Festival returns in person - we can't wait! 

Thursday 28 April 2022 Nicolas' short story A DEATH THAT KEEPS KILLING is out in the Hong Kong Review's latest issue! 

Thursday 10 March 2022 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is now available on Hulu

Wednesday 16 February 2022 A great review by the Guardian for the Sampsonic-supported documentary KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME. 

Monday 31 January 2022 A new year, a new Connection Degree Three: ON THE TWELVE STEPS TO MIDNIGHT.

Saturday 1 January 2022 Happy New Year to our big global film family! 

Thursday 16 December 2021 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL has been picked up by Hulu and will be released on the platform in March! More details to follow.

Wednesday 24 November 2021 Sampsonic Media backs the new UK/Irish production company Sleeper Films, led by seasoned executives Lee Magiday, Rory Gilmartin and Wilf Varvill.

Wednesday 17 November 2021 Arno graduates from Inside Pictures at a bustling alumni event in Central London.

Tuesday 12 October 2021 The US digital release of SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is here! Check out the sizzling documentary on Apple TV and Altavod.

Monday 4 October 2021 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL screens in cinemas across the US, first stop: Austin, Texas.

Friday 1 October 2021 Samuel Goldwyn Films releases ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN in the US today!

Thursday 9 September 2021 Check out Nicolas' book review of Don DeLillo's Point Omega on WRITERS AT LARGE.

Thursday 2 September 2021 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN releases in Brazil, the Middle East and North-Africa.

Tuesday 6 July 2021 The Cannes Film Festival kicks off today -- welcome back cinema!

Monday 14 June 2021 Nicolas' first novella SELF-PARTNERED -- out now in the Hong Kong Review Vol II, No 4.

Friday 11 June 2021 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN releases in Polish cinemas.

Tuesday 1 June 2021 Check out Nicolas' essay BLESSED ARE THE WRITERS on Impspired.

Thursday 13 May 2021 The novella SELF-PARTNERED, written by Nicolas D. Sampson, will be published in the next issue of the Hong Kong Review. More details to follow, exciting times!

Wednesday 12 May 2021 Check out the newly created trailer for the Taiwanese release of ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN on May 21st.

Thursday 22 April 2021 ON GOING DEEP TO KNOW OURSELVES is the latest Connection Degree Three on Impspired.

Wednesday 14 April 2021 We celebrate the Italian premiere of ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN at Bergamo Film Meeting.

Monday 29 March 2021 Nicolas' piece SO WILL THE SCRIBES publishes in the Hong Kong Review. Congrats!

Monday 22 February 2021 The latest Connection Degree Three piece has arrived: ON THE SYMBOLISM OF OPENING EPISODES.

Thursday 4 February 2021 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL secures US distribution!

Monday 1 February 2021 Check out A LITTLE FIRE BURNING on Impspired, written by Nicolas Sampson.

Thursday 28 January 2021 Rocking the festival circuit -- ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN receives an invitation to screen at the Portland International Film Festival.

Monday 4 January 2021 Happy New Year -- here's to a creative and inspiring 2021!

Wednesday 23 December 2020 With lyrics co-written by Nicolas, here's VIRUS from the new Arrayan Path album The Marble Gates to Apeiron.

Wednesday 16 December 2020 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN is the proud winner of the Sloan Distribution Grant.

Tuesday 15 December 2020 The New York Jewish Film Festival has lined up ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN to screen on January 18th.

Wednesday 12 November 2020 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL wins the Grierson Award for Best Arts or Music Documentary.

Wednesday 11 November 2020 Samuel Goldwyn Films snaps up ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN for US distribution.

Wednesday 11 November 2020 The Hong Kong Review publishes OFF SCRIPT, a short story by Nicolas D. Sampson.

Wednesday 11 November 2020 IFC Films picks up the Kurt Vonnegut documentary UNSTUCK IN TIME for theatrical release in the summer of 2021.

Saturday 7 November 2020 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN screens at Amplify in the UK.

Friday 23 October 2020 ADVENTURES producer Lena Vurma wins the VGF German Award for up-and-coming producers. Congrats Lena!

Thursday 22 October 2020 Check out the latest on Connection Degree Three: ON MARLOW AND ALL THINGS GOTHIC.

Thursday 15 October 2020 HOPE GAP releases in Australia!

Friday 25 September 2020 And it's a wrap for Inside Pictures Module 2 -- we're sending Arno off to bed now!

Tuesday 22 September 2020 ON THE POWER OF DEITIES -- a Connection Degree Three piece covering the ground between music and books.

Monday 21 September 2020 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is nominated for The Grierson Awards for Best Arts or Music Documentary.

Friday 28 August 2020 The cast and director of HOPE GAP in a thoughtful and witty interview by The Guardian. Catch the movie in UK cinemas or on the Curzon Home Cinema platform.

Friday 31 July 2020 An excellent review for HOPE GAP in Le News out of Switzerland.

Tuesday 21 July 2020 The latest on Connection Degree Three -- ON PERSONAL CONVICTION.

Friday 3 July 2020 HOPE GAP wins the Best Film Award in Barcelona at BCN FILM FEST!

Monday 22 June 2020 Cannes goes virtual -- well done to the festival for building the online platform, and we can't wait to be back in person again next year. Et voila!

Thursday 18 June 2020 It's a wrap for the first module of Inside Pictures -- can Arno still keep his eyes open?

Monday 1 June 2020 A double bill of CONNECTION DEGREE THREE by Nicolas D. Sampson.

Thursday 21 May 2020 Connection Degree Three is back with ON THE SPECTER OF LOSS.

Thursday 7 May 2020 Screen Daily announces the participants for this year's Inside Pictures programme and Arno Hazebroek is one of them!

Monday 4 May 2020 Check out the awesome trailer for KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME, a documentary about the literary legend - almost 40 years in the making.

Wednesday 22 April 2020 LIT Magazine publishes Nicolas' review of Philip K. Dick's classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Tuesday 21 April 2020 The latest instalment in Connection Degree Three by Nicolas D. Sampson is titled ON THE PSYCHOPATHY OF THE DISAFFECTED. Give it a read!

Monday 6 April 2020 Check out the trailer for SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL, now available on VOD in the UK.

Saturday 21 March 2020 Check out ON MYTHS AND MEANING, a new Connection Degree Three essay in Impspired Magazine, by Nicolas D. Sampson.

Monday 16 March 2020 Read this personal and insightful interview with Nicolas Sampson about being a writer.

Friday 13 March 2020 Annette Bening on The Ellen Show doing an accent game with host Sean Hayes and promoting HOPE GAP.

Friday 6 March 2020 HOPE GAP strong out of the gate with this review by Observer.

Friday 6 March 2020 Check out the trailer for HOPE GAP, releasing in US cinemas today and rolling out across the country next Friday March 13.

Monday 2 March 2020 Deadline delivers a raving review in the run up to the US release of HOPE GAP.

Sunday 1 March 2020 PBS interviews Amelia Davis about photographer Jim Marshall and the documentary we made celebrating his life and work.

Saturday 22 February 2020 Impspired Magazine publishes the first edition of CONNECTION DEGREE THREE by Nicolas Sampson.

Monday 17 February 2020 Indie Sales releases the trailer for ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN in the run up to the Berlinale.

Monday 10 February 2020 The soundtrack for SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is available on Spotify.

Thursday 30 January 2020 The music photographer trusted by the stars: BBC reviews SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL. 

Tuesday 28 January 2020 CONVICTION WITH TEMPERANCE, a non-fiction piece by Nicolas Sampson, has been published in Impspired Magazine. 

Monday 27 January 2020 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL screens at Royal Albert Hall with music legends Richard Young and John Altman in attendance. 

Saturday 25 January 2020 HOPE GAP wins the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Friday 17 January 2020 The Hollywood Reporter reviews ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN at Palm Springs. 

Wednesday 15 January 2020 HOPE GAP enjoys its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Sunday 5 January 2020 A beautiful premiere for ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Thursday 12 December 2019 Nicolas' story APPEARANCES has been published in Tales of Reverie (scroll to pp56-62).

Tuesday 10 December 2019 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN will have its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January!

Friday 6 December 2019 CIRCULAR TRIANGLES, the latest piece of our very own Nicolas Sampson has been published in Impspired Magazine.

Wednesday 13 November 2019 Learn more about Jim Marshall's life and check out some of his amazing photographs.

Thursday 7 November 2019 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL screens at festivals in London and New York this month!!

Thursday 10 October 2019 PURGE - a poetic essay by Nicolas Sampson is published in The Writers' Magazine.

Friday 4 October 2019 HOPE GAP screens at the glorious Odeon Luxe Leicester Square to a sold out room and captivated audience.

Monday 16 September 2019 After a successful world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, HOPE GAP will have its European premiere at the London Film Festival early October.

Friday 23 August 2019 VITA & VIRGINIA releases in US cinemas today!

Wednesday 14 August 2019 We're getting excited for TIFF and the HOPE GAP premiere!

Friday 26 July 2019 It's official -- HOPE GAP will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Friday 5 July 2019 Cinemas across the UK and Ireland are gearing up for today's release of VITA & VIRGINIA.

Saturday 29 June 2019 VITA & VIRGINIA screens at Munich Film Fest.

Thursday 6 June 2019 THE RAFT, like the people aboard it, floats along the surface of a vast ocean of mystery and memory. The result is a bizarre, captivating, and borderline unbelievable memory play. In select US theaters now!

Saturday 25 May 2019 Congrats to Bong Joon-ho for winning the Palm d'Or at Cannes for his new movie PARASITE.

Thursday 9 May 2019 HOPE GAP finds its North American home.

Wednesday 24 April 2019 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL wins the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Thursday 18 April 2019 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL screens at the San Francisco International Film Festival! 

Wednesday 17 April 2019 Check out the Official Trailer for VITA & VIRGINIA.

Thursday 4 April 2019 Memories Of Yesterday is a short story collection that focuses on the elderly. The opening piece — I Remember Now — is by our very own Nicolas Sampson.

Tuesday 26 March 2019 Matthew Carey interviews Alfred George Bailey (director) and Amelia Davis (executive producer) of SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL. 

Friday 15 March 2019 The Hollywood Reporter reviews SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL.

Wednesday 13 March 2019 Hungry for the Woolf - the Evening Standard on VITA & VIRGINIA.

Tuesday 19 February 2019 SXSW here we come -- to celebrate the legendary photographer Jim Marshall and the documentary about his life and work.

Friday 8 February 2019 VITA & VIRGINIA will open the BFI Flare LGBTQ Festival in London in March.

Tuesday 23 January 2019 SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL will premiere at SXSW in March. First up, a buzz-stop at the Berlinale.

Friday 14 December 2018 The feature-length documentary SHOW ME THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF JIM MARSHALL is coming together beautifully.

Thursday 15 November 2018 HOPE GAP received lots of interest at the AFM.

Thursday 1 November 2018 The shoot for the feature film ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN has wrapped -- having filmed in Germany, Poland and New Mexico, US.

Friday 26 October 2018 VITA & VIRGINIA will screen in theatres in Australia as part of the British Film Festival.

Tuesday 18 September 2018 An excellent review in Variety for VITA & VIRGINIA.

Friday 14 September 2018 ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN started principal photography this week. More details to follow...

Tuesday 11 September 2018 VITA & VIRGINIA premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival - lots of laughter in the audience and a vibrant Q&A with leading ladies Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton and director Chanya Button post screening.

Monday 10 September 2018 A shout out to Werner Herzog's MEETING GORBACHEV. We thoroughly enjoyed the documentary, Gorbachev's enigmatic screen presence and the Q&A with Herzog himself following the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Friday 17 August 2018 Screen launches the First Look stills from HOPE GAP, one with Annette Bening and Josh O'Connor and one with Bill Nighy.

Tuesday 14 August 2018 Nicolas Sampson has written an insightful essay on Orhan Pamuk's book The White Castle, published in Panorama: The Journey of Intelligent Travel.

Tuesday 14 August 2018 VITA & VIRGINIA has been invited to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival as one of their Special Presentations.

Saturday 11 August 2018 And that's a wrap for HOPE GAP -- wow, that went fast! Congrats to the cast & crew, job well done!

Tuesday 10 July 2018 First day of shooting for HOPE GAP -- break a leg everyone!.

Friday 8 June 2018 Sampsonic boards feature film HOPE GAP starring Annette Bening and Bill Nighy, helmed by Bill Nicholson.

Wednesday 16 May 2018 Cannes was every bit as vibrant as it was made out to be -- we'll be back!

Thursday 3 May 2018 Not long before we can shout about a new riveting project Sampsonic is getting involved in.

Tuesday 24 April 2018 Sampsonic is gearing up for the Cannes Film Festival.

Friday 6 April 2018 New projects on the horizon -- more announcements soon.

Wednesday 28 March 2018 The latest scoop -- BEHIND THE MIRROR has been released on DVD!

Sunday 11 March 2018 We have picture lock on VITA & VIRGINIA. Stay tuned!

Thursday 22 February 2018 Breaking news: George Kallis wins the IFMCA Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year. Well done and well-deserved, George.

Sunday 18 February 2018 The Berlin sizzle -- lots of movement, exciting prospects and midnight curry wurst.

Thursday 8 February 2018 After an awesome win at the Movie Music UK Awards, George Kallis is now also nominated for an IFMCA Award and two Reel Music Awards. Way to go, George!

Wednesday 7 February 2018 Sampsonic is looking forward to the Berlinale.

Thursday 1 February 2018 Congratulations to George Kallis for winning the Movie Music UK Award for Breakthrough Composer Of The Year 2017. Sampsonic Media proudly executive produced his score for ALBION: THE ENCHANTED STALLION.

Tuesday 23 January 2018 Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel welcomes Nicolas D. Sampson as Literature Editor, leading their new Travel Literature section.

Monday 1 January 2018 Happy New Year to all our friends, colleagues and audiences around the world.

Friday 15 December 2017 VITA & VIRGINIA is deep into post-production; a diamond starts to emerge.

Saturday 2 December 2017 Sampsonic Media proudly sponsors LUNA ROSA Theatre Company's new play #πάνταbaby♥️♥️♥️ -- a unique, festive theater experience for babies 0-24 months old.

Thursday 16 November 2017 FLAMES AND SHADOWS receives a nomination for a 2018 Pushcart Prize for short fiction. Congratulations, Nicolas!

Wednesday 1 November 2017 AFM First Look: Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton in VITA & VIRGINIA.

Monday 23 October 2017 It's a wrap! Well done to all the cast & crew working on VITA & VIRGINIA.

Tuesday 17 October 2017 Congrats to Nicolas D. Sampson for getting published in Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel with his short story FLAMES AND SHADOWS.

Monday 18 September 2017 Netflix alert! Check out the endearing and adventurous ALBION: THE ENCHANTED STALLION.

Monday 4 September 2017 VITA & VIRGINIA starts principal photography. Break a leg!

Wednesday 9 August 2017 Week five of pre-production; VITA winks at VIRGINIA.

Thursday 27 July 2017 Visit Vimeo to watch BEHIND THE MIRROR.

Monday 10 July 2017 VITA & VIRGINIA starts pre-production.

Friday 23 June 2017 Elizabeth Debicki will play Vita Sackville-West in VITA & VIRGINIA.

Tuesday 6 June 2017 Google Play features BEHIND THE MIRROR..

Thursday 18 May 2017 One month after the initial release, BEHIND THE MIRROR is now also available on X-Box, Playstation, Vudu, and Direct TV.

Wednesday 3 May 2017 Read the excellent short story UNRESOLVED ISSUES by Nicolas D. Sampson, published in The Scofield -- Issue 2.2 / Conrad Aiken & Consciousness (page 272).

Monday 1 May 2017 After obtaining the film rights to the book, Sampsonic Media is full on developing THE HUSBAND SWAP for the big screen.

Tuesday 18 April 2017 BEHIND THE MIRROR has been released on iTunes and Amazon Video - check it out!!

Wednesday 12 April 2017 In less than a week, BEHIND THE MIRROR will be released on iTunes and other platforms!! Mark your calendar for April 18.

Tuesday 28 March 2017 LOCOMOTIVE introduces RANT HQ - broadcasting random truths from around the world:
http://www.locomotiveonline.com/author/rant-hq/

Thursday 16 March 2017 ALBION: THE ENCHANTED STALLION will be available on demand April 4th: http://bit.ly/2p4wB8U
Composer: George Kallis / Music Score Executive Producer: Nicolas D. Sampson

Sunday 26 February 2017 Sampsonic Media congratulates MOONLIGHT for winning the against-all-odds Best Movie award at the Oscars.

Monday 13 February 2017 Sampsonic Media attends the Berlin Film Festival.

Monday 6 February 2017 Random Media announces their movie slate for distribution including BEHIND THE MIRROR.

Friday 27 January 2017 BEHIND THE MIRROR will soon be released. Check out the new trailer on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3633594/

Monday 9 January 2017 Sampsonic Media sponsors THE PINK MOON AND ORANGE EARTH, a devised theater play for and by children in Cyprus.

Sunday 11 December 2016 Sampsonic Media is looking forward to 2017 - with new movements on LOCOMOTIVE, BEHIND THE MIRROR, WAKE OF LIBERTY and much more. Happy Holidays!

Thursday 3 November 2016 With a punky roar we welcome D.D. Wood to LOCOMOTIVE: http://www.locomotiveonline.com/author/d-d-wood/

Friday 14 October 2016 Sampsonic Media steps aboard riveting feature film VITA & VIRGINIA.

Thursday 15 September 2016 Katrina Woznicki and Maro Pol join LOCOMOTIVE. Read their quirky and intriguing stories here:
www.locomotiveonline.com/author/katrina-woznicki/
www.locomotiveonline.com/author/maropol/

Sunday 21 August 2016 One week to go till the Hudson Valley film festival screening of BEHIND THE MIRROR. Don't miss it - August 28 @ 12pm.

Friday 29 July 2016 BEHIND THE MIRROR screens 10pm today at the Seattle Transmedia and International Film Festival: http://trueindependent.org/venues/

Tuesday 12 July 2016 Another festival acceptance for BEHIND THE MIRROR, this time at the Hudson Valley International Film Festival - very exciting, indeed. The festival runs from 26-28 August.

Friday 24 June 2016 Writer D.L.C. Heslop joins LOCOMOTIVE - check out her profile and work: www.locomotiveonline.com/author/dlcheslop/

Monday 6 June 2016 STIFF, Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, has selected BEHIND THE MIRROR for competition screening! Festival dates: July 28 - 31.

Wednesday 1 June 2016 BEHIND THE MIRROR has signed up for world-wide distribution with LA-based company Random Media; a great home for the movie!

Tuesday 21 May 2016 LOCOMOTIVE blogazine is live: www.locomotiveonline.com

Saturday 14 May 2016 Budapest: The live orchestra recording for ALBION: THE ENCHANTED STALLION, with composer George Kallis at the helm, commences.

Thursday 28 April 2016 Sampsonic Media becomes Music Score Executive Producer for feature film ALBION: THE ENCHANTED STALLION, directed by Castille Landon and starring Jennifer Morrison, Debra Messing, John Cleese and Stephen Dorff.

Monday 11 April 2016 ‘We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.’ ~ KURT VONNEGUT. More news about UNSTUCK IN TIME (by Whyaduck Productions), the upcoming documentary on the iconic author, coming soon.

Wednesday 16 March 2016 WAKE OF LIBERTY @ creative workshop in rustic Positano, Italy – observing the effect geography has on a character's actions.

Thursday 10 March 2016 Getting ready for the Sirenland 2016 Writers Conference, where WAKE OF LIBERTY will be workshopped. Some amazing authors will be instructing, such as Karen Russell (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 2012), Dani Shapiro (author of the best-selling Devotion), and Jim Shephard (winner of 2005 Massachusetts Book Award).

Saturday 20 February 2016 We are looking forward to the release of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel on Feb 26.

Sunday 14 February 2016 BEHIND THE MIRROR wishes you a Happy Valentine's day and bids everyone to be loving but mindful of their surrounding environment.

Monday 08 February 2016 www.behindthemirror.com the official site for the film is now live!

Saturday 23 January 2016 WAKE OF LIBERTY has been accepted to the Sirenland 2016 Writers Conference. We are delighted to be in such great company. More details to follow.

Thursday 07 January 2016 WAKE OF LIBERTY - the project's development is gathering pace. We are diving back into classic works from masters like Tolkien and Martin to appreciate how they developed their extraordinary worlds. Watch this space for updates.

Tuesday 22 December 2015 We have received distribution interest for BEHIND THE MIRROR. What a great way to end the year!

Tuesday 15 December 2015 KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME, a documentary by Robert B. Weide and co-executive produced by Nicolas D. Sampson is now in post-production. Check out the IMDB page here.

Friday 27 November 2015 WAKE OF LIBERTY. A two-day creative workshop in the town of Over, UK, ended with success. We've laid some strong foundations for the coming books and TV series.

Thursday 29 October 2015 Sampsonic Media is in the process of optioning the film rights to a sizzling book. More details to follow in due course.

Friday 06 October 2015 We've just had the European Avant Premiere of BEHIND THE MIRROR in Nicosia, Cyprus. The film will run in cinemas nationwide from Friday.

Friday 02 October 2015 We've just finished two versions of a teaser trailer for BEHIND THE MIRROR, beautifully cut by Charles-Antoine Hennegrave in London. View them on here.

Wednesday 30 September 2015 Nicolas Sampson, Sampsonic Media Founder, and Writer & Executive Producer of BEHIND THE MIRROR, has given an interview to Sigma TV about the film in anticipation of the European Premiere in Cyprus next week. It’s all Greek to us but you can watch it here.

Monday 28 September 2015 The BEHIND THE MIRROR trailer is complete. Great work Fishbowl, CA, it looks awesome! Watch it here.

Thursday 24 September 2015 Another Festival selection for BEHIND THE MIRROR at the The Great Lakes International Film Festival, U.S.

Friday 28 August 2015 BEHIND THE MIRROR has picked up a U.S. Sales Agent in Circus Road Films, CA. Distribution, here we come!

Wednesday 01 July 2015 Sampsonic Media is officially a co-executive producer in UNSTUCK IN TIME, a documentary on the life of iconic author Kurt Vonnegut, author of Mother Night and Slaughterhouse 5. So it goes.

Tuesday 11 August 2015 We're very pleased to announce that Jonathan Moens, who in a past life worked on numerous articles with Nicolas at Urban Times, has joined the LOCOMOTIVE team.

Wednesday 15 July 2015 Illustrations, content and back-end all ready for the LOCOMOTIVE. A big welcome to Argyro Nicolaou who joins the team to manage the site. Look out for its launch in August.

Thursday 25 June 2015 Another award!! BEHIND THE MIRROR has picked up Best Thriller at the Manhattan Film Festival.

Friday 19 June 2015 Tonight is the World Premiere of BEHIND THE MIRROR at the Manhattan Film Festival. We’ve come a long way to get here and boy are we going to enjoy it!

Friday 01 May 2015 Our first award! BEHIND THE MIRROR has won Best Thriller at the Mexico International Film Festival.

Monday 02 March 2015 Our festival strategy has been signed off and we’re ready to submit BEHIND THE MIRROR to over 50 festivals around the world.

Sunday 01 February 2015 Producer, Director and formerly fearless stuntman Arno Hazebroek has joined the team and is our new Chief Operating Officer. Gavin Denman who was temporarily holding the fort can now concentrate on being Creative Director without dealing with another spreadsheet ever again.

Saturday 19 December 2014 The Final cut for BEHIND THE MIRROR is ready. DVD Screeners being produced as we speak.

Wednesday 19 November 2014 Congratulations to Nicolas D. Sampson for posting his five hundredth article on Urban Times.

Sunday 22 September 2014 A year to the day we started shooting, we are very close to picture lock on BEHIND THE MIRROR. A big nod to Minos Papas, our director-turned editor, who is working tirelessly to deliver a cut.

Thursday 03 July 2014 First graphic sketches for the LOCOMOTIVE are ready and Gavin Denman has created a magical world. With the hard bit done, we’re taking a break on it to concentrate on the film and then back on-board at the end of the year.

Monday 02 June 2014 First cut of BEHIND THE MIRROR is in. It’s rough and raw but looks stunning!

Friday 06 October 2013 We've got conceptual lock on the LOCOMOTIVE design! The overriding theme will be a cerebral loco-motivated journey through an imaginary world. All the content will then live in stop-off stations / locations for the reader to disembark.

Sunday 27 October 2013 Writing begins for the LOCOMOTIVE, a new website. Content will include Fiction, Memoir, Social Commentary (including the series Spin Doctor, formerly at Urban Times), EON (an original social commentary), Videos, Poetry, and others. Possible theme categories include culture, media, politics, economics, human behaviour, film, music, books, religion and science.

Friday 25 October 2013 It's a wrap on BEHIND THE MIRROR. It’s been six weeks of intense pressure but we've definitely got some magic in the bag.

Sunday 22 September 2013 First day on set of BEHIND THE MIRROR. Everyone’s geared up and ready to roll. Tomorrow we begin shooting.

Friday 09 August 2013 We've revamped Nicolas D. Sampson's Blog. Check it out at here (www.nicolasdsampson.com) for an eclectic mix of flash fiction, social commentary and cultural review.

Tuesday 23 July 2013 The BEHIND THE MIRROR script is done, locked, ready to shoot!

Saturday 26 January 2013 We're in the Hudson Valley, upstate New York scouting for locations for BEHIND THE MIRROR. It is absolutely stunning around here; I think we’ve nailed it!

Monday 07 January 2013 Sampsonic Media. The name change from ‘Behind The Mirror Ltd’ is officially complete. Sampsonic Media continues working as usual, while we steal the old name for the feature script we are developing.