Sam Casey's filmmaking journey began at the age of 9, igniting an unwavering passion for every facet of filmmaking. With roots deeply entrenched in acting, writing, producing, directing, music, and cinematography, Casey's multifaceted talents transcend traditional boundaries.
He has seen recent commercial success, wearing as many hats as he could on "Laughing Since '79," both a commercial and a pre-show introduction that plays before stand-up comedy shows at The Laugh Factory; working as an actor, composer, co-director, co-writer, co-producer, and co-cinematographer.
Poster for "Menticide"
Buddy Love and Sam Casey holding the award for Best Cinematography for Kingdom Come at the Reel East Texas Film Festival
Poster for "The Gift"
Sam Casey, Haven Pottinger, and Buddy Love in "The Gift"
Buddy Love, Haven Pottinger, Sam Casey, and Jozey Jezek leading Jasper the Blind Horse on "The Gift"
Haven Pottinger, Sam Casey, Buddy Love, Jozey Jesek, and Jasper the Blind Horse on the set of "The Gift"
Sam Casey as Gannon in "Menticide"
Casey is no stranger to festival success: notably as an actor playing multiple characters in The Gift (2022), which won the Kodak 100 Feet of Film Project's Audience Award at The Atlanta Film Festival; and receiving cinematography awards on both Menticide (2021) and Kingdom Come (2021) by writer-directors Zachary Moore and Buddy Love, respectively.
In Menticide he played a mysterious scientist that puts Madison Avery Pine's character under mind control, appearing to her in hypnotic states to make her conduct a series of abductions of other morally corrupt people. He also composed the original music for the movie.
He additionally worked on Kingdom Come as a producer and cinematographer; shooting it at The Casey Family Ranch in black-and-white; starring Garrett Avey and Madison Avery Pine.
Sam Casey filming assets for an application video for The Second City Film School in 2016 in a studio at The Santa Fe University of Art and Design in New Mexico
BTS of Sam Casey and Buddy Love acting on the set of the band Sex Tape's "Long Drag" Music Video
Nadia Ibrahim, Cody Hilliard, Sam Casey, Josh Leftwich, and Luke Silliman on the set of Malort: FTBM (For Those Bitter Moments)
Poster for Progressor
Sam Casey has multiple projects in the editing room, including:
"Progressor," a horror-comedy film in which Casey co-wrote and co-stars with Buddy Love. Casey also co-directed it with Josh Leftwich, with Casey as the cinematographer and composer.
Sam Casey stars as a liberal man that is at an evening party of a liberal version of a Southern Baptist family which he is marrying into, and Buddy Love stars as the preacher-like head of the family and brother to Casey's fiance. Casey begins to drink a whiskey that unbeknownst to him makes people politically conservative.
This marks another collaboration for Casey with Madison Avery Pine as an actress; Diego Torrado as an actor, whom he met at The Second City Film School in 2018; and Riley James, whom both Casey and Leftwich have made films with since they lived in the same dorm hallway at Santa Fe University of Art and Design in New Mexico.
Sam Casey filming for Mile High in 2017
Sam Casey as a knight in a commercial advertisement for King of Cups Chicago
Behind the scenes photo of Sam Casey, Riley James, Claire Sundbye, and Josh Leftwich on the set of "Laughing Since '79" commercial advertisement for The Laugh Factory
Behind the scenes photo of Cassidy Weidman, Sam Casey, Madison Avery Pine, and Seth Aaron Barton on the set of "The Gift"
Behind the scenes photo of Sam Casey petting a blind horse next to Jozey Jezek on the set of "The Gift"
Photo of Madison Avery Pine, Zach Moore, and Sam Casey at a film festival for "Menticide"
"Mile High," a movie directed and written by Buddy Love, in which Casey has a starring role, is the movie's co-cinematographer, is the musical composer, co-producer, and more.
The movie features Buddy Love, Garrett Avey, Austin Parker, and Lucas Looch Johnson as high school friends that seek an elusive drug controlled by a mysterious kingpin played by Casey. They all experience conflict at home, which manifests in their relationships and abuse of one another.
"Scream Queen" is a feature film project which Casey has adapted over the last eight years from his chilling experiences from 2016 to 2019 in The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas which he will direct and have a starring role in. This will first be a short film that will be made to fund the feature film version of it.
The short film follows a sound guy, while trying to collect room tone on a film set in an abandoned hotel, cannot get his fellow set members to be quiet. He then hears a peculiar sound through his earphones, which leads him further into the depths of the building.
The details of the feature version's story are being kept under wraps for the time being.
Sam Casey standing at the top of The Baker Hotel while shooting a reality TV show of the restoration process
Sam Casey in front of The Baker Hotel for a promotional photo for Scream Queen
