- Born
- Birth nameSamuel Bozzo
- As a documentary filmmaker, Samuel Vartek made the feature "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" (as Sam Bozzo), based on the ground-breaking book and narrated by Malcolm McDowell. The film won international awards, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, has screened theatrically in Japan and is available in the USA via PBS Video, iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon VOD. The project was Executive Produced by Mark Achbar ("The Corporation", "Manufacturing Consent").
As a narrative filmmaker, Samuel Vartek is a Top 10 Project Greenlight Director, personally selected by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and a winner in Kevin Spacey's TriggerStreet.com short film contest. An Art Center College of Design Alumni, Samuel wrote, directed, and edited short films which screened at the Student Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel and Showtime.
As a screenwriter, Samuel sold a horror script to Stephan J. Cannell and has written several screenplays of varying genres and budgets, some projects to sell and other to produce and Direct independently. His scripts have been Quarterfinalists in the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, a Semifinalist in the Cannes Golden Plume Screenwriting Competition, and a Semifinalist in the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.
In television, Samuel's Sci-Fi pilot "The Farm" made the prestigious quarterly Blacklist. Samuel earned his MFA at David Lynch's Graduate School in Cinematic Arts, where he was honored to learn from a true film master while working on a collaborative TV/Web Series which also resulted in his most recent short film "No More Secrets".- IMDb mini biography by: Samuel Vartek
- Caught drinking beer on the beach as a Southern California teenager and thinking the undercover cop was a lifeguard, Samuel lied that his name was "Samuel Todd Connors". When the police phoned in and found the name did not exist, Sam was arrested. When he cleared the misdemeanor a year later, Samuel was surprised to find his police file now had a huge "A.K.A. Samuel Todd Connors" on it and vowed to name a character in every script he wrote with his new official illegal alias.
- While living in Prague working at Mark BBDO as a television commercial consultant, Samuel Vartek would often visit his literary hero Franz Kafka's grave for inspiration while writing screenplays.
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