Ms. Cutler had a want to inform tales on movie, which, she stated, got here from an earlier ardour for storytelling by way of trendy dance. She is presently a documentary movie producer for Common Studios. Her credit embody the 2023 biopic “Carlos,” about Carlos Santana, and “Breakaway,” ESPN’s “30 for 30” collection in regards to the W.N.B.A. participant Maya Moore.
Like Mr. Friedman, she was raised Jewish in a not notably spiritual family. She has one older brother, Aaron, and two youthful brothers, Jake and Charlie. Her mother and father, Beth and David Cutler, divorced when she was in preschool.
Earlier than she earned a bachelor’s diploma from Barnard School, the place she majored in dance and English, she was drawn to the power on the Friedmans’ home.
“His mom was an achieved physician, however she additionally had this penchant for classic clothes,” she stated. “The entire household was bohemian and creative.” His father, a hobbyist photographer, stored a darkroom in the home that sparked his son’s love of images.
When Ms. Friedman was organizing the 2017 jazz membership meet-up in Manhattan, Ms. Cutler was residing in Greenwich Village and dealing as a producer at a manufacturing firm. Ms. Friedman was ending a level in Philadelphia.
“Elias and I stored bumping into one another throughout New York,” she stated. “We’d see one another in Union Sq., within the West Village, in SoHo. We preferred the identical museums and the identical neighborhoods.” Every time they met, Mr. Friedman would counsel they hang around and go her his cellphone so she may punch in her quantity. “By the point he handed his cellphone over for the fourth time, he had 4 Samantha Cutlers in there,” she stated. “He stored saving my quantity.”
