In 2019, he was accepted into the highly competitive Indigenous Producers Program run by Screen Australia’s Indigenous Unit, in partnership with Inkey Media Pty Ltd. In 2020, Samuel was awarded Screen Australia’s ‘Enterprise Funding’, which allowed him to undertake a two-year, fully funded producer placement at host company, No Coincidence Media. Since starting, Samuel has worked across No Coincidence’s slate as a producer, and has been gaining valuable experience in a range of producing skills – from development, contracting and financing, through to post production. 

Samuel’s first producing credit came through his placement, when he was an associate producer on the anthology feature film We Are Still Here. In October 2020, he produced a sizzle reel for the docu-series Larapinta, on which he oversaw the development of the script all the way to post-production. After this, with support from NITV and Screen Australia, Samuel moved into production of the series, where he took on the role of Production Manager.