Samantha Jennings

Production

Samantha Jennings

Australia

Samantha Jennings is known for Talk to Me (2022), Cargo (2017) and Buoyancy (2019).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Leviticus poster
6.7

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.

Leviticus

2026

Talk to Me poster
7.1

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Talk to Me

2023

Bring Her Back poster
7.3

Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

Bring Her Back

2025

Cargo poster
6.4

After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

Cargo

2017

You Won't Be Alone poster
6.6

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

You Won't Be Alone

2022

The Fox poster
NR

An affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman.

The Fox

2026

No artwork available
NR

In a dystopian future, a young couple clashes during their time-traveling vacation.

Future Tense

2026

Of an Age poster
6.6

A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.

Of an Age

2023

Buoyancy poster
7.1

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

Buoyancy

2019

Blaze poster
5.4

After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

Blaze

2022

No artwork available
NR

A boy struggles to understand his strange, silent father - a Lithuanian immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.

Father

Talk 2 Me poster
NR

The sequel to the 2022 film. Plot TBA.

Talk 2 Me

Went Up the Hill poster
6.8

Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.

Went Up the Hill

2025

The Moogai poster
6.1

A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.

The Moogai

2024

Good Madam poster
4.6

In post-apartheid South Africa, Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her own estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. And as Tsidi tries to heal her family, a sinister spectre begins to stir.

Good Madam

2021

How Can I Help You poster
NR

In an attempt to overcome her incessant guilt complex, a young woman goes a step too far.

How Can I Help You

2023

No artwork available
NR

A documentary based on the world of deathmatch wrestling.

Deathmatch

The Moogai poster
7.7

Moogai is Bundjalung for ‘ghost’, and it is precisely a moogai that intrudes on the quiet home life of Sarah, Fergus and their newborn baby.

The Moogai

2020

No artwork available
8.0

Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.

So Close to Home

2003

No artwork available
NR

Follows Janet Paine, a well-intentioned but deeply insecure Manhattan PR executive with a specialty for smear campaigns.

True-ish

Grace poster
NR

A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.

Grace

2017

The Looming poster
NR

A feature adaptation of Masha Ko’s Sundance short of the same name. When a virtual home assistant speaker picks up the strange noise a man has heard in his house, he realizes that it may not be a symptom of dementia.

The Looming

No artwork available
NR

A New York novelist who, while attending a family funeral in Vienna, discovers a German relative’s illicit queer love affair with a Jewish man during WW2 – sending him on a journey through the past that changes his future.

All the Boys Are Here