Samuel Collardey is a French film and television director and cinematographer noted for his work in the Docufiction genre.

It tells the story of a young farmhand learning his trade at a dairy near the Swiss border.

In 2013, he directed his second feature Little Lion about a young Senegalese soccer player who has to fend for himself in France after being abandoned there by a crooked talent scout.

In his third feature, Land Legs, Collardey returned to a more documentary approach, adapting his script, co-written with Catherine Paillé, from the real-life story of Dom, a commercial fisherman forced to choose between a life at sea and the custody of his two children.

In addition to his work for the big screen, in 2015 Collardey directed two episodes of the critically acclaimed political thriller The Bureau (TV series), available in the US and UK via iTunes and Amazon Prime.