Samantha Mitchell

Samantha Mitchell

  • 1st year in Industry: 2005

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Samantha is a Location Scout + Manager based in Denver.

Originally hailing from the Garden State, she started her career in NYC art directing and producing photo shoots all over the US and worldwide. She moved to Salt Lake City in 2012 to start ESEM Productions. Since then, she has worked on countless commercial advertising projects all over the Rocky Mountain West. In 2022 she moved to Denver which she currently calls home.

Samantha has worked with a variety of brands on everything from small still photo shoots to large commercial productions.

Recent clients include Yamaha Motorsports, Wyoming Tourism, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Subaru, RE/MAX, YSL, Oreo, Harley Davidson, and CVS.

She has extensive scout files from all over the Rocky Mountain West – a small sample of which you can see on her website.

Her background in art and photography combined with decades of experience in production has given Samantha a rare left and right brain mix, ideal for Locations. Her photographer’s eye serves her well as a Scout, finding locations to fit the creative vision of each project. As a Location Manager her producer brain is easily able to juggle all the details from permitting to traffic control coordination to clear staging map design.

When she is not searching for epic shoot locations, you can either find her indoors on stage – storytelling and doing improv or outdoors hiking, climbing, and skiing in her beloved Rockies.