Sam Low

Sam Low is a film producer, writer and photographer. He graduated from Yale University in 1964. After active duty with the 7^th fleet in the Pacific, he received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard in 1975. He taught anthropology at Hunter College in New York and Bowdoin College in Maine. In 1979, he began his career in film by joining the production team for the Odyssey series on PBS where he produced his first film – the Ancient Mariners – on underwater archeology. He founded Cambridge Studios in 1981 with two partners and produced films for the PBS series NOVA and The Ring of Truth as well as programs for the Discover Channel and an eight part series on the Maya called Out of the Past.

His films have won many awards and have been shown at the Nantes Festival International de film du Mer, Film/Video International at Castle Hill, the Honolulu Film Festival and the Margaret Mead Film Festival.

Recently, he has turned to journalism, writing articles for a variety of magazines. His sailing features have appeared in Soundings, Sailing, Sea History, Sail, Wooden Boat and Cruising World. Articles about motor racing have appeared in Sports Car International, Porsche Panorama, Excellence, Sports Car International and European Car. Other venues include Orion, Hana Hou (in Hawaii) and Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. He has illustrated these articles with his own photographs.

Sam is completing a book that tells how ancient Polynesian seafarers – without instruments or charts - explored and settled ten million square miles of the Pacific more than a millennium ago. “Hawai’iki Rising” will be published by the University of Hawaii press.