Joshua Sampson

Movies

Minari
Standby Art Director
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Phony
Art Department Production Assistant
Sunny, a young Asian American woman with anger management issues, returns home to the San Gabriel Valley seeking respite from her recent career failures - but a simple grocery shopping trip with her mother may prove more than she can handle.
They
Art Direction
J is in their early teens and lives in the countryside. J has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, goes by the selected pronoun “they”, and takes hormone blockers to suspend puberty. While J’s parents are away, their older sister and her Iranian boyfriend are assigned the duties of house-sitting and looking after J.
Instant Getaway
Art Direction
After teleporting into Texas illegally, a young man from Mexico stands trial for murder.
Dustland
Assistant Art Director
Once upon a time, an endless dust storm engulfed the world, stranding an itinerant circus in a time without purpose. One day, a high-wire walker, lured by a tune hidden in the wind, leaves the circus and finds the melody revealed in the shape of a mysterious fiddler waiting at the crossroads. The stranger presents her with an hourglass that can stop the wind, but only until the sand runs out. The wire-walker rejoins the show and, taking control of her fate, decides to walk the wire one last time.
The Raiven Destiny
Art Direction
Planet Kathigana and it’s inhabitants, the Kathigas, have been ravaged by war at the hands of the evil Anadaîn. The Anadaîn are treacherous beings with overwhelming powers hell-bent on eradicating everything in their path. Kedjorian, a revered Kathiga hero has been assigned to protect a sacred emissary, a messenger who possesses the map to the Raiven, the legendary weapon that could end the war. Kedjorian’s ship is shot down and forces him to crash land in the outskirts of Kathigana, a region overrun with Anadaîn forces. Despite being gravely injured, Kedjorian must fight with everything he’s got to protect the emissary and the map from a very powerful Andaîn grunt. Kedjorian confronts the troubling notion that he must give everything, including his own life, to protect a weapon that may or may not exist…