---
name: "Sam Bisbee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sam-bisbee"
fi1m_id: "sam-bisbee"
imdb_id: "nm0083851"
tmdb_id: 1095275
wikidata_id: "Q110798835"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T03:20:45.703549+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sam Bisbee

## Identity

Sam Bisbee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sam-bisbee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sam-bisbee
- **IMDb ID:** nm0083851
- **TMDB ID:** 1095275
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110798835
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bisbee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110798835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083851/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095275

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bisbee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110798835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083851/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095275

## Biography

Sam Bisbee is an American independent film producer and composer. He graduated from Columbia University in 1990 and began his career as a songwriter, composer and music producer before moving into film.

He is a founding partner of Park Pictures Features and has produced numerous independent films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including *Robot & Frank* (2012), *Infinitely Polar Bear* (2014), *Cop Car* (2015), *Other People* (2016), *The Hero* (2017), *Hearts Beat Loud* (2018) and *Earth Mama* (2023). He also produced the documentary *The Perfect Neighbor* (2025).

Bisbee won a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking in 2019 for *The Sentence* and has received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for his documentary work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Daughters* (2024), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/daughters.md)
- *Earth Mama* (2023), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/earth-mama.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bird in Hand* (2026), Producer
- *This Is Private* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Soul Patrol* (2026), Producer
- *The Perfect Neighbor* (2025), Producer
- *Grand Theft Hamlet* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Daughters* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/daughters.md)
- *Late Bloomers* (2024), Producer
- *Flipside* (2024), Executive Producer
- *As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial* (2024), Producer
- *Bliss* (2024), Music
- *Earth Mama* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/earth-mama.md)
- *Rule of Two Walls* (2023), Producer
- *Broadway Rising* (2022), Producer
- *There There* (2022), Producer
- *Aisha* (2022), Producer
- *Dusty & Stones* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Independent* (2022), Producer
- *Catch the Fair One* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Not Going Quietly* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Breakaway* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Storm Lake* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Long Weekend* (2021), Producer
- *The Truffle Hunters* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Last Shift* (2020), Producer
- *Born to Play* (2020), Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Farewell Amor* (2020), Producer
- *Us Kids* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Swallow* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Lazy Susan* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Hearts Beat Loud* (2018), Producer
- *An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn* (2018), Producer
- *The Sentence* (2018), Music, Producer
- *The Hero* (2017), Producer
- *Other People* (2016), Producer
- *Supermoto* (2016), Producer
- *The Preppie Connection* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Cop Car* (2015), Producer
- *Mall* (2014), Screenplay
- *God's Pocket* (2014), Producer
- *Infinitely Polar Bear* (2014), Producer
- *Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Robot & Frank* (2012), Producer
- *Don't Go in the Woods* (2012), Screenplay, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Boys On Film: Bad Romance* (2011), Producer
- *The New Tenants* (2009), Producer
- *30 for 30* (2009), series, Original Music Composer
- *Paper Covers Rock* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Wildflowers* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Girl* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Jump* (1994), Music
- *Verano*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2026: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *The Perfect Neighbor*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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