Sam Harkness, age 11, screams as a freight train passes by Sam at the Beach, Color Super-8mm, 1998 Credit: Reed Harkness Central to Sam Now is Reed’s half-brother Sam, whose mother Jois suddenly left ...

The opening scene of the documentary film ”Sam Now” features the film’s titular character, Sam Harkness, in a wild array of scenarios. Sam Harkness, age 12, plays an angsty adolescent in Reed & Sam’s ...

Reed Harkness’ locally made 2022 documentary “Sam Now,” in which the filmmaker explores a story in his Seattle family, has long been on my radar; it’s won numerous awards on the film-festival circuit ...

Before little brother Sam was Reed Harkness’ documentary subject, he was his movie star. In a series of annual short films captured by Reed’s Super 8 camera, Sam’s onscreen persona developed into the ...

The new documentary “Sam Now,” tells a deeply personal story about two film-obsessed brothers and their quest to find their missing mom. In the film, Harkness captures his half brother Sam Harkness ...

The PBS documentary anthology series ‘Independent Lens’ will air the acclaimed feature doc Sam Now on May 8, and has released an exclusive clip ahead of the film’s TV premiere. Drawing from film shot ...

Sam Now is filled with the unexpected twists and turns of a family undergoing great upheaval, filmed over the course of a quarter-century by one of its members. Inspired by National Film Board of ...