[2] Between 2001 and 2008, he was the author and host of the weekly show Magic of Cinema on the national TV channel Russia-K.[3] Samuel Klebanov was born in Leningrad in 1965, but grew up and graduated from high school in Moscow.

In 1996, he founded the company Maywin Media AB in Sweden to sell Scandinavian television programs and films to Russia and the CIS countries.

In the following years, the company Cinema without Borders became the leading player in the arthouse film distribution in Russia and the countries of the former USSR, releasing several hundred films theatrically and for home entertainment, including works by such directors as Takeshi Kitano, Ruben Östlund, Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cristian Mungiu, Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Abdelatif Kechiche and many others.

[6] In the spring of 2015 he announced the launch of a new distribution outfit Arthouse in partnership with the American company Lorem Ipsum Corp.[7] Under the new brand, Klebanov was going to continued to release independent and arthouse films in Russia in both theatrically and online, including such titles as Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure, Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and Matthew Warchus' Pride.

[9] In the fall of 2017, Sam Klebanov, in partnership with software developer Pavel Rabetsky, founded a start-up Cinezen Blockchained Entertainment AB in Sweden.