Samo Lives
Samo Lives is a feature film that has completed production with Endeavor Content, Fifth Season and Valmont Productions attached. Jessica Kelly (casting director), Julius Onah (director) and John Baker (producer) are attached. It was scheduled to shoot in New York, NY in September 2022. Production List last updated this listing on April 28, 2026.
Project Summary
The biographical film will celebrate the life, career and impact of the groundbreaking New York-born, Haitian-Puerto Rican American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose seminal paintings and street art defined the Neo-expressionism arts movement of the 1980s.
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The production office and crew contacts for Samo Lives are on file at Production List, last updated April 28, 2026, and are available to members. Membership is $29.95 for the first month.
Cast & Crew
Directing
| Director | Julius Onah |
Production
| Producer | John Baker |
| Producer | Rob Feng |
| Producer | Eric Robinson |
Writing
| Writer | Peter Glanz |
| Writer | Julius Onah |
Cast
| Cast | Kelvin Harrison Jr. |
Other Crew
| PM | Charles Miller |
Casting
| Casting Director | Jessica Kelly |
Contact details for each person listed are on file and available to members.
Working on Samo Lives
Samo Lives has finished principal photography. How productions hire crew · Working as an extra · Reaching the production office
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Source: Production List, published by the Film & Television Industry Alliance. Cite this page as https://www.productionlist.com/production/samo-lives (last updated Apr 28, 2026).