Sam Robotham
@hamrobotham.bsky.social
Award winning screenwriter and non-award winning filmmaker and podcaster. Mental health advocate.
Rep: Maddy Weese - Bellevue Productions
WATCH DEADCOATS HERE ⬇️
https://shortedfilms.com/short-films/deadcoats-afterlife-humor/
Rep: Maddy Weese - Bellevue Productions
WATCH DEADCOATS HERE ⬇️
https://shortedfilms.com/short-films/deadcoats-afterlife-humor/
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Sam Robotham
@hamrobotham.bsky.social
· Nov 7
DEADCOATS - Short Film
YouTube video by Sam Robotham
youtu.be
Since we're all re-introducing ourselves, thought I'd re-share my dark comedy short film, DEADCOATS
The American Revolution seems very relevant again for some reason. Couldn't tell you why...
Check it out and enjoy!⤵️
youtu.be/Nqwd3Vmp9WU?...
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
The American Revolution seems very relevant again for some reason. Couldn't tell you why...
Check it out and enjoy!⤵️
youtu.be/Nqwd3Vmp9WU?...
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
Okay #Scriptsky (specifically those of you in New York)
I'm finally preparing to film my micro-budget short that I started working on 2 years ago. Aiming for production in the next 2 months.
If you're around and want to help in any way (or even from afar) let me know! Let's build community.
I'm finally preparing to film my micro-budget short that I started working on 2 years ago. Aiming for production in the next 2 months.
If you're around and want to help in any way (or even from afar) let me know! Let's build community.
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Okay #Scriptsky (specifically those of you in New York)
I'm finally preparing to film my micro-budget short that I started working on 2 years ago. Aiming for production in the next 2 months.
If you're around and want to help in any way (or even from afar) let me know! Let's build community.
I'm finally preparing to film my micro-budget short that I started working on 2 years ago. Aiming for production in the next 2 months.
If you're around and want to help in any way (or even from afar) let me know! Let's build community.
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."
January 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."
Wasn't it like 4 years ago that people were crying over the "everyone gets a trophy" movement?
Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He’ll Push for Greenland
In a text message, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the world would not be secure until America controlled the island.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Wasn't it like 4 years ago that people were crying over the "everyone gets a trophy" movement?
This is all like the worst Orwell novel you've ever read
January 18, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This is all like the worst Orwell novel you've ever read
Ritchie Torres 🤝 Alamo Drafthouse
Historically stupid use of QR codes
Historically stupid use of QR codes
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Ritchie Torres 🤝 Alamo Drafthouse
Historically stupid use of QR codes
Historically stupid use of QR codes
Every day it gets harder to remain on social media.
I feel it's important to stay informed but the amount of hatred, willful ignorance and blatant manipulation we get exposed to every day is absolutely draining.
Whatever good there is left feels like a drop in the bucket of all the bad.
I feel it's important to stay informed but the amount of hatred, willful ignorance and blatant manipulation we get exposed to every day is absolutely draining.
Whatever good there is left feels like a drop in the bucket of all the bad.
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Every day it gets harder to remain on social media.
I feel it's important to stay informed but the amount of hatred, willful ignorance and blatant manipulation we get exposed to every day is absolutely draining.
Whatever good there is left feels like a drop in the bucket of all the bad.
I feel it's important to stay informed but the amount of hatred, willful ignorance and blatant manipulation we get exposed to every day is absolutely draining.
Whatever good there is left feels like a drop in the bucket of all the bad.
I time travel back to 1995.
I tell my younger self Snoop Dogg will present the first ever podcast award at the Golden Globe.
Both of our brains explode.
I tell my younger self Snoop Dogg will present the first ever podcast award at the Golden Globe.
Both of our brains explode.
January 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I time travel back to 1995.
I tell my younger self Snoop Dogg will present the first ever podcast award at the Golden Globe.
Both of our brains explode.
I tell my younger self Snoop Dogg will present the first ever podcast award at the Golden Globe.
Both of our brains explode.
Dragging my family to the theater on Thanksgiving so I can see Godzilla Minus Zero for the 5th time
First poster for ‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’
In theaters on November 6, 2026.
In theaters on November 6, 2026.
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Dragging my family to the theater on Thanksgiving so I can see Godzilla Minus Zero for the 5th time
Reposted by Sam Robotham
LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills
![Text from a friend of mine:
“[Other friend] was walking her dogs a block from her house in Silverlake and ice rolled up and took two gardeners
They are going up in the hills and nabbing people. Warn your neighbors!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kba5ra5zizxsey2nq4pwnove/bafkreigqz4iwnoilpik6eghhzgw2qhftw6dd3spcjhnsk5b7g5t6xih5je@jpeg)
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills
Reposted by Sam Robotham
Opened in 1936 as The Colley Theater, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent at The Naro. Countless rep screenings and indie films I would have never otherwise gotten the chance to see. Always followed by a visit to the video store next door (RIP)
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
January 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Opened in 1936 as The Colley Theater, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent at The Naro. Countless rep screenings and indie films I would have never otherwise gotten the chance to see. Always followed by a visit to the video store next door (RIP)
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
Just in case it's helpful to anyone in the future, the code they cite, 18 USC 111 is specific to anyone who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with" certain government agents.
In other words, filming them is completely legal.
In other words, filming them is completely legal.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Just in case it's helpful to anyone in the future, the code they cite, 18 USC 111 is specific to anyone who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with" certain government agents.
In other words, filming them is completely legal.
In other words, filming them is completely legal.
Opened in 1936 as The Colley Theater, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent at The Naro. Countless rep screenings and indie films I would have never otherwise gotten the chance to see. Always followed by a visit to the video store next door (RIP)
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
January 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Opened in 1936 as The Colley Theater, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent at The Naro. Countless rep screenings and indie films I would have never otherwise gotten the chance to see. Always followed by a visit to the video store next door (RIP)
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
What's your #ChildhoodCinema
#Filmsky
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
My first "real" script, FROM THE DEPTHS (hour long pilot) came from a simple idea:
What would happen if I put sea monsters into Moby Dick?
It's weird how this style of idea forming has influenced basically all of my writing.
#Scriptsky
What would happen if I put sea monsters into Moby Dick?
It's weird how this style of idea forming has influenced basically all of my writing.
#Scriptsky
Hey #scriptsky
Tell us about the murky origins of your first proper script? (the first one you're kind of happy with)
Was it an article? An old story? A scene from another moving that sparked a 'what if?'
Inquiring minds and all that...
Tell us about the murky origins of your first proper script? (the first one you're kind of happy with)
Was it an article? An old story? A scene from another moving that sparked a 'what if?'
Inquiring minds and all that...
January 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
My first "real" script, FROM THE DEPTHS (hour long pilot) came from a simple idea:
What would happen if I put sea monsters into Moby Dick?
It's weird how this style of idea forming has influenced basically all of my writing.
#Scriptsky
What would happen if I put sea monsters into Moby Dick?
It's weird how this style of idea forming has influenced basically all of my writing.
#Scriptsky
If you're angry today (and you should be furious) please try to use it.
Funnel it into your art, use it to mobilize action in your area, do something meaningful with this anger.
These are important and valid emotions to have. Don't let them fester on the Internet.
Funnel it into your art, use it to mobilize action in your area, do something meaningful with this anger.
These are important and valid emotions to have. Don't let them fester on the Internet.
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
If you're angry today (and you should be furious) please try to use it.
Funnel it into your art, use it to mobilize action in your area, do something meaningful with this anger.
These are important and valid emotions to have. Don't let them fester on the Internet.
Funnel it into your art, use it to mobilize action in your area, do something meaningful with this anger.
These are important and valid emotions to have. Don't let them fester on the Internet.
Hate to be an alarmist, but this agent is absolutely going to get away with what they did and it's only going to embolden other agents to act the same.
Never stop recording them. Their crimes need to be documented.
Never stop recording them. Their crimes need to be documented.
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Hate to be an alarmist, but this agent is absolutely going to get away with what they did and it's only going to embolden other agents to act the same.
Never stop recording them. Their crimes need to be documented.
Never stop recording them. Their crimes need to be documented.
Kinda wild that all this AI madness started because they wanted to have a robot on Jeopardy
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Kinda wild that all this AI madness started because they wanted to have a robot on Jeopardy
Nope (2022)
Dir. Jordan Peele
Dir. Jordan Peele
January 6, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Nope (2022)
Dir. Jordan Peele
Dir. Jordan Peele
Things are starting to get back up and running again in the industry, so feels like a great time to share a Writer Hack:
When querying, by simply adding "or else..." to the end of your message, you nearly double your chances of getting a response.
#Scriptsky
When querying, by simply adding "or else..." to the end of your message, you nearly double your chances of getting a response.
#Scriptsky
January 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Things are starting to get back up and running again in the industry, so feels like a great time to share a Writer Hack:
When querying, by simply adding "or else..." to the end of your message, you nearly double your chances of getting a response.
#Scriptsky
When querying, by simply adding "or else..." to the end of your message, you nearly double your chances of getting a response.
#Scriptsky
‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ has won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Critics Choice Awards.
January 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
‘SINNERS’ has won Best Original Screenplay at the Critics Choice Awards.
January 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Ya know now that I think about it, I saw a Cybertruck with an annoying vanity plate parked in front of a hydrant outside my apartment last night.
Should have seen that as a clear omen of all the bullshit today.
Should have seen that as a clear omen of all the bullshit today.
January 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Ya know now that I think about it, I saw a Cybertruck with an annoying vanity plate parked in front of a hydrant outside my apartment last night.
Should have seen that as a clear omen of all the bullshit today.
Should have seen that as a clear omen of all the bullshit today.
Reposted by Sam Robotham
Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?
January 3, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?
January 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Happy New Year? More like Happy Flu Year (I have the flu)
January 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Happy New Year? More like Happy Flu Year (I have the flu)