Samantha Culp

Based in Los Angeles, after a decade in China, Samantha is a writer and filmmaker focused on the changing flows of global culture, the shifting creative economy, and mobilizing storytelling for social change. She produced the Netflix documentary series The Confession Tapes and Exhibit A and co-wrote and produced the documentary podcast The Beige Room for Pineapple Street Media. Currently, she’s a consulting producer on the forthcoming film adaptation of Hao Jingfang’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novella Folding Beijing. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on a forthcoming nonfiction book about the global history of “the future” as a cultural concept and its transformation into a commercial industry.