Sam Slovick
An award-winning journalist and documentary director he’s been published by the LA Times, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Mission and State, Red Canary Magazine and many others. His feature documentary, “Radicalized” (Indie Rights Films 2016) has been called the definitive voice of a generation protest film.
As a journalist his ability to access subjects and deliver long form narrative journalism in written word, photography and video simultaneously is his signature. His 5-part doc series “On Skid Row” (Good Magazine) and “Scenes from the New Revolution” (Participant media) were the precursor to his work on immigration. “At the Border with the Patron Saint of Transmutation” (Red Canary Magazine) is a deep dive into migrants shelters in Mexico was awarded first place in immigration reporting be the LA Press Club. It is one story in an emerging body of work on immigration. His most recent work, “The Haiti Factor” (Red Canary Magazine) received the Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award, a project of the Los Angeles Press Club.
Previously he appeared in the movies Red Dawn (1984) and Home for the Holidays (1995), and the TV series Fame. As a singer-songwriter, he was part of the 1980s NYC club band, The Pedantiks (Elektra) followed by group Louie Says (RCA).
First place, “Immigration Reporting,” Los Angeles Press Club’s 2022 SoCal Journalism Awards.
Judges note: “Sam Slovick draws his readers in through the stories surrounding the Tijuana areas and allows the space for them to connect personally with both the setting and its characters. After reading this piece, his audience is able to better understand the plight of the immigrants at the border, yet also understand the implications left by bureaucratic policy that prevented an easy ingress from Nueva Aurora, past Zona Norte and into ‘el norte.’ This was a well articulated and balanced article that leaves readers hungry to continue probing the struggles of immigrants.”