Laura Sampson Hemingway is a storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. She writes dramatic, feminist, genre-bending narrative fiction and screenplays. Read her flash-fiction on Substack. Watch her movie on Tubi.

Laura Sampson Hemingway is a filmmaker (Crossroads of America) and screenwriter (One More Time With Feeling) based in New York City. Laura’s work has awarded her a fellowship with Stowe Story Labs x Sidewalk Film Festival, a development grant from PANO Network, and an artist residency with Nostos Screenwriting Retreat. Laura teaches screenwriting at L’École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in New York and mentors young writers through the national non-profit Girls Write Now. She’s a graduate of Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College (MFA), Eugene Lang College at The New School (BA), and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY. She’s also a David Lynch Foundation scholarship recipient for the study of Transcendental Meditation, and an alumna of T. Schreiber Studio and Theater.

Crossroads of America (Trailer)
Feature, 80 min
2020

Directed by Gabrielle Muller
Cinematography by Alice Millar
Written by Laura Sampson Hemingway

Sandy, a young, recovering alcoholic, is forced to make amends with her estranged family after a drunk driving accident leaves her sister paralyzed. But when tensions flare and rifts are further divided, Sandy must confront the buried family secret that tore them apart.

Her Garden Hat
Short, 2 min 04 sec
2015

Directed by Alice Millar
Narration by Isobel Boyce
Words by Laura Sampson Hemingway

The apples slightly rotten are sweetest.

One More Time With Feeling (Teaser)
Short, 17 min
2022

Directed by Morgan Green
Cinematography by Kusi-Quyllur Del Castillo
Co-written by Morgan Green and Laura Sampson Hemingway

Charlee, a struggling theatre actress in New York City, discovers her biological father online and instead of introducing herself, she stalks him through multiple realities until she is confronted with herself, the person she has actually been looking for.

Esia
Short, 3 min 33 sec
2014

Directed by Jackie Bernon
Cinematography by Alice Millar
Costume design by Laura Sampson Hemingway

Esia is a feeling you cannot define nor could ever forget.