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Michelle “ELLE” Sam

Storyteller · Filmmaker · Medicinal Healer · Multimedia Artist

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Elle Sam is a storyteller across different mediums — film, immersive art, interactive installation, writing, and oral tradition. An award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, and medicinal healer of Ghanaian descent within the Fante, Akwapim, and Bwiti traditions, she holds a B.A. from Rice University in Visual and Dramatic Arts, Sociology, and Neuroscience.

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Elle is a world-travelling storyteller, working across multiple mediums and just as many cities — San Francisco, Berlin, Amsterdam, Oaxaca, Accra, and more. Spanning film, immersive art, interactive installation, writing, and oral tradition, her work moves wherever the story demands. An award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, and medicinal healer of Ghanaian descent within the Fante, Akwapim, and Bwiti traditions, she holds a B.A. from Rice University in Visual and Dramatic Arts, Sociology, and Neuroscience.

Elle works with various indigenous healing modalities, carrying a deep connection to land and lineage through her practice — a relationship that anchors her work across disciplines. From neuroaesthetic art installations that lower cortisol and activate joy, to ceremonial storytelling rooted in West African tradition, her work treats healing and creative expression as inseparable.

She was a speaker at TEDxAccra’s Chale Talks and has feature and series projects in development with several major studios. Her practice bridges indigenous healing traditions, neuroaesthetics, and multimedia narrative — the convergence at the heart of Cineasthesia.