Samuel Jamier | Source | Executive Director / President and (ex officio) Board Member at New York Asia...

Samuel Jamier has a background in cultural programming including the Japan Society, Korea Society and the French Embassy. Moving to New York City from Paris in 2002, he served as a Chargé de mission for the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, as head of its literary program. At the Korea Society, he designed and executed programming initiatives spanning foreign policy and corporate symposia, to Korean cinema and traditional performing arts - guests included heads of state, senior government officials, business leaders, professors, authors, film luminaries, as well as living national treasures. As senior film programmer at Japan Society, he was responsible for the entire program of film series and festivals, including the acclaimed Japan Cuts festival.

Samuel Jamier earned doctoral, MA and BA degrees in English Literature, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Philosophy, with Honors, from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University; is an Agrégation Laureate (French PhD equivalent) in Modern English Literature; and a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. He also completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University, Japan and King’s College in London, England. He was a Professor of English Literature at the Sorbonne, prior to moving to NYC.

“Film festivals should restore the sense of collective excitement that moviegoers have lost in commercial theaters in recent years,” says Jamier. For me, film curation is like creating my own film out of many films, assembling them into a showcase, editing them into an event.”

Jamier speaks a few languages casually (Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian) and a couple very creatively (English, French). He can type in Latin if absolutely necessary. Jamier is of Korean descent, and grew up in Brittany, France.