About Sam

Sam Rosenberg is an L.A. born-and-based filmmaker, freelance entertainment critic, and pop culture obsessive. They graduated from the University of Michigan in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in English and film, television, and media and from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2025 with a Master’s degree in screenwriting. Thus far, they have written, directed, and produced a six-episode web series, two animated documentary shorts, and a music video, and are currently in post-production on a narrative short.

Since 2020, Sam has written reviews, essays, and interviews on TV, film, music, and pop culture for a variety of entertainment publications, including The Daily Beast, Consequence, Metacritic, and Alt Press. Their article, “How Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Reaffirms My Experience with Autism,” was featured in a season 2 episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal. Currently, they are a contributor for Paste Magazine, where they regularly write and publish album reviews and a monthly column on film scores and soundtracks called CineMusic.

In addition to freelance writing, Sam has extensive experience working in the entertainment industry, having interned for The Wrap, The Rogue Initiative, and Sight Unseen and worked on multiple film and TV productions, including Late Night with Seth Meyers, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bob Hearts Abishola, and The Fabelmans. They have also taken sketch comedy and storytelling courses at UCB, contributed scripts to Parcast, edited and transcribed episodes of Art of the Cut, and written audio descriptions for The Sopranos and The Wire.

They are non-binary/trans and use they/he/she pronouns.