Speaker Sam Sniderman

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Sam Sniderman

President

Electric Palm Media

Sam Sniderman is President of Electric Palm Media, a Los Angeles-based advisory firm specializing in strategy, corporate development and value creation for global content businesses. He works with leading producers, studios and investors on growth, M&A and evolving business models across film, television and digital media.

Sniderman has been a senior leader in the entertainment industry, based out of London and Los Angeles, for over twenty years. He has wide-ranging experience collaborating with talent and managing dynamic international creative businesses.

From 2017 and 2024, Sniderman was a C-Suite executive at Blue Ant Media. As Co-President of Content Production, he was responsible for the growth, operations and profitability of the company’s international television production business. He has also served as an executive producer on a number of Blue Ant Studios projects, including Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, Paul Anka: His Way and Prince Andrew: Banished

Prior to Blue Ant, Sniderman was the Global Chief Operating Officer and MD, Film and Entertainment at Pulse Films (a Vice Media company). He helped to guide Pulse through rapid growth, which included scripted and unscripted commissions from Channel 4, Sky Atlantic and ITV. He also spearheaded the financing and distribution of award-winning theatrical feature films like 20,000 Days on Earth (Nick Cave), Who Is Dayani Cristal (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Shut Up and Play the Hits (LCD Soundsystem).

At the Banff Media Festival, we met with Netflix and took a ride up Sulphur Mountain on the gondola. That’s where we made the pitch.
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