Editing Sam Longoria

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{{short description|American film director}}
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'''Sam Longoria''' (born March 12, 1956, in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], United States) is a [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] producer-director and [[visual effects]] engineer. 
He produces independent feature movies, (digital and 35mm and 65mm film), and serves as writer, director, actor, editor and cinematographer.

Longoria began making movies in 1970 at the age of 14.  
He made a feature-length [[35mm movie film|35 mm film]] in [[Enumclaw, Washington]], moved to Hollywood in 1978, with occasional film and theatre work in Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago.

Longoria's Hollywood work (frequently uncredited) begins in the 1980s, as a member of the technical crew on films such as ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', ''[[2010 (film)|2010]]'', ''[[Return to Oz]]'', and ''[[Captain EO]]''.

In 1985, he photographed President [[Ronald Reagan]] in the White House for a large-format film documentary.  
In 1992, he created [[35mm movie film|35 mm]] projected backgrounds from small-format film and video elements, for [[Peter Sellars]]'s production of [[Paul Hindemith]]'s Opera ''Mathis der Maler'', at London's [[Royal Opera House]], [[Covent Garden]]. 
In the 1990s, Longoria built camera electronics for the [[1994 in film|1994 film]] ''[[Terminal Velocity (film)|Terminal Velocity]]'', optically enlarged [[Charlie Sheen]] and [[Martin Sheen]]'s [[Super 8 mm]] home movies for the 
[[1999 in film|1999 film]] ''[[Five Aces (film)|Five Aces]]'', and performed hydraulic special effects on the [[1997 in film|1997 film]] ''[[Dante's Peak]]'', which had the largest water dump (650,000 gallons, weighing 5.4 million pounds) in cinema history.

From 1985 to 1994, Longoria Produced six live stage comedy shows a week, a Russian Drama, and two successful comedy radio shows, 
in Hollywood at The WILD SIDE Theatre. He loves Improv, and uses it in his shows and films.

In 1998–2001, he helped out in the studio with his friends' "[[The Firesign Theatre]]" comedy recordings, and attended the Grammy Awards in 1998 and 2002 to root for their nominated discs. He is credited as "Mascot," and "Nuts and Berries."

Since 2001, he splits his year, working both in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] and [[Seattle]].  
Longoria is a member of the [[Visual Effects Society]] and the [[Masquers Club]] in Hollywood, and focuses now on making his own films.

==External links==
* [http://samlongoria.com/ Official website]
* [http://samlongoria.blogspot.com/ Longoria's filmmaking blog]
* {{IMDb name|id=1836692|name=Sam Longoria}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202171755/http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/sam-longoria.html Sam Longoria – Libertarian]
* [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121831,00.html Longoria in People magazine]
* [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-01-ca-1383-story.html Longoria in Los Angeles Times]

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