Sam Reichman, Executive Creative Director
💭 Thoughts on the best kind of toner mist, Thresholds the podcast, and the importance of collaboration in your work.
Sam Reichman is a partner and Executive Creative Director at None Other, a women-owned and -led production company based in Brooklyn. She worked in journalism at a number of media organizations before transitioning into creative agency roles, and has taught workshops for SVA’s Master’s in Branding program. She also fancies herself an amateur genealogist after a pandemic’s worth of diving down ancestral rabbit holes.
🎯 Current focus
My partners and I just officially re-launched our production company as None Other after taking over the reins last year. So, that’s a huge update! We know production to be equal parts creation and curation. And we love that we get to be the ones to put the right people in the room together and set them up to succeed. In developing our new identity, we made sure to define that value for our partners and embody it in our name. Ideas are important, but relationships are precious.
🎙️ Thresholds the podcast
I’ve been listening to a fantastic podcast called Thresholds—interviews with writers and artists about the moments that have shaped them. Jordan Kisner is one of the most talented interviewers I’ve encountered, and I think she’s just the coolest person.
I just finished watching Scavengers Reign, a true masterclass in worldbuilding. It’s inventive and beautiful and reminded me of some of the themes in Semiosis by Sue Burke—an iconic sci-fi novel. If you like suspense and second-guessing yourself, I can’t recommend it enough.
🎶 The importance of collaboration in your work
I’ve recently realized how important it is to share works in progress with friends. It hadn’t occurred to me that by doing so, it would naturally open the door for collaboration with the people I already trusted the most.
And in the spirit of sharing unfinished projects, I am hoping to self-release our band’s first single under the name MAN LEE later this spring. We’ve been working on our debut LP for a long while now (give or take five years), but it wasn’t until we started sharing that music with friends and collaborators that it really took shape and took hold of my heart.
🤳 Most beloved niche meme account
I love engaging with content that I don’t yet understand. Every little open question is a tasty snack that feeds my research brain. Enter my most beloved niche meme account: 24 Memes Per Second. I watched every film mentioned in the curators’ comments until I bought a peg bar myself. It’s over for me.
😌 The best kind of toner mist
I can’t live without my Tower 28 SOS Rescue Spray, or any kind of toner mist in a little bottle. I bring it to set, pass it around at shows, spritz friends and family at weddings—always with permission—and throw it in my carry-on for my travels.
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