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Sam Kolder

Sam Kolder is a Canadian filmmaker and the creator behind KOLD, sharing travel films, drone footage and the craft of editing through Kolder Creative.

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Overview

From: Toronto, Canada
Work: Filmmaker, editor and filmmaking teacher
Career began: 2014, according to Kolder Creative
Breakout film: My Year 2016, released in March 2017
Teaching: Kolder Creative

Mini bio

How it started.

Sam grew up in Toronto and began experimenting with his brother’s point-and-shoot camera as a child. Editing clips inside the camera introduced him to the possibilities of filmmaking. He taught himself, and Kolder Creative dates the start of his career to 2014.

Finding an audience.

Touring with The Chainsmokers became an early opening into professional filmmaking. He later became head of video at Beautiful Destinations and worked with brands including YouTube, Canon, DJI and Gymshark. Sam identifies My Year 2016 as a film that helped bring his work to a wider audience.

The personal films.

Hey Tim honors his brother, whose death changed the direction of Sam’s life. The film combines travel footage with animation by Howard Wimshurst. In its description, Sam says he spent more than 500 hours editing it and thanks Jakob Burkhardt for helping shoot footage over two years.

Sharing the process.

Through Kolder Creative, Sam teaches the editing and filmmaking skills behind his work. His recent output includes a Socotra travel film, a collection of drone shots, and mobile filmmaking projects with vivo, followed by a joint masterclass in October 2026.

Creditschronological, newest first

2026The Garden RouteFilmmaker, in collaboration with vivo
2025Make PLAY part of your Creative ProcessFilmmaker; collaboration with Stefanos Tsitsipas
2021How I Filmed a Big Budget Commercial (On a Phone...)Co-filmmaker with Bryn North; main-film editor, colorist, sound designer and co-producer of the music
2019Hey Tim - The Story of my Life.Filmmaker and editor; animation by Howard Wimshurst
2017My Year 2016Creator

Quotes

I saw the magic in filmmaking, and I was hooked.Sam Kolder, Musicbed

Remembering the camera experiments that first sparked his interest in filmmaking.

Trivia

One early camera experiment made it look as though Sam teleported between trees by cutting out the footage in between.
He names Devinsupertramp and Wes Anderson among his creative influences.
For Hey Tim, he says he spent three weeks editing at night and sleeping after sunrise.
His 2021 OnePlus 9 Pro project credits him and Daut Berisha with producing the music.