Samuel Mac Fadden

Samuel Mac Fadden, American film director raised in Italy, was born in 1981. Grandson of the film director Hamilton Mac Fadden, in 2009 was graduated with a first class honours degree in "Film History and Criticism"at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"; he completed a Master's in Film Direction at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media. He had shot various short films. In 2008 his first full length film "Al Termine della Notte", a thriller, has been presented at The RomeFilmFestival. In 2010 he has directed "Andromache", a short documentary about three young Gipsies and their relationship with the city of Dublin. Also in 2010 he directed "The Gates of Dawn". Based on the legend of "Tristan and Isolde", this short film is a dreamlike tale of the passionate and intense love between two young lovers linked and divided by destiny and a spellbound series of events. In the same year he directed "Shelter from the Storm", a thriller shot in Ireland. In a setting of racial conflict and rival gang fights, a dream of love and redemption played out between a young Irish loser, and a beautiful Nigerian prostitute in a mysterious, tough, and nocturnal Galway.