Samuel Black (writer and director) is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker with more than a decade of experience in documentary film and television. His most recent film, "The Big Squeeze: The Story of Gamestop" premiered on Vice TV in October 2021. He produced feature-length documentaries including "Kingdom of Silence," about murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks" and "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.” He also made investigative documentaries for Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs program, where he won numerous prizes including an Overseas Press Club Award. He has reported stories for This American Life and was a 2018 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University.