Sami Kimberley is a multi-disciplinary creative exploring the intersection of ecology, culture, and community. Co-founder of Baesianz, Baesianz Adventure Club and founder of Studio Pangu, her work spans film, research, and community practice, running in parallel with over a decade of creative direction for global brands.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Project Lead - Green Lions
2025
Nature KwenTour is a collaborative and creative storytelling program mapping local ecologies, memories and shared knowledge across ecologies in Siargao, Philippines and London, UK. The program will bring Siargaonan youth and London’s pan-Asian diaspora together to explore how creativity and technology can reconnect us to embodied, ancestral and local knowledge.
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Directed by Sami Kimberley
2025 (awaiting release)
Chuey is a meditative short film set in the North London garden of Chuey Loh, a Malaysian-Chinese Buddhist and therapist. Blending plant species from across continents, she cultivates a space that holds both a reflection of memories, integrated cultures and a foundation for possibility. Through her reflections, the garden becomes more than a place - it is a lens through which we explore themes of migration, belonging, and how nature can soften the lines that divide us.
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By Sami Kimberley
2024
Made in Cornwall, By the Sea was created partly as an archival process - gathering the often unseen ocean footage from my phone - and partly as an attempt to articulate my feelings for the ocean: a deep connection and respect, intertwined with the harder reality of living in a fishing town and watching trawlers and boats pass daily from my window.
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Creative Direction by Sami Kimberley
2024
A moment of pause in a sea of content, this campaign takes Zendaya to the Swiss Mountains to share personal reflections on the role of movement and well-being in her own life, encouraging others to seek out rituals in nature for themselves.
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Five Part Documentary Series
Co-Directed by Sami Kimberley
and Federico Urdaneta
2023
“In a world of algorithms, misinformation and echo chambers, we are losing control of our networks, our stories and our voices.” Waterbear and NGO, BeNode explore stories of connections and networks, capturing stories of collectives, individuals and technology which is breaking the conventions and restrictions of connection.
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Co-Founder
Baesianz is a London-based interdisciplinary collective cultivating Asian-led narratives founded by Sami Kimberley, Sarah Khan and Roxanne Farahmand in 2019. Born from a shared need to nurture our Asian roots and uplift Asian communities, we organise multidisciplinary events including exhibitions, film screenings, solidarity fundraisers, workshops, radio shows, artist residencies, and audio-visual performances.
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Chuey Film
Nature KwenTour
By the Sea Film
Earth Symbols
Kamio ‘Oh My Self-Esteem’
WaterBear Documentary Series
Roots of Resistance Zine
Baesianz
Baesianz Adventure Club
KK Outlet: Phytophitic Plants
Roots Exhibition
Creative Direction Portfolio
Field Notes
Photo Archive