Samantha Jan Fleming | BIO
Executive Creative Director
Chief Branding Officer. Brand Builder. Transformation Specialist. Executive. Producer. Creator.
Jan is a seasoned creative who’s worked in diverse media for some of the world’s most influential companies, lifestyle brands and non-profit organizations including Sundance, The Walt Disney Co, ABC Networks, Viacom-Nickelodeon-MTV, HBO, Live Earth, Transworld Media, NewForm Digital, The Library Foundation LA and many more.
Jan has a broad range of experience in film and television, multi-dimensional branding, advertising, experiential entertainment, publishing, consumer products, social media, digital and recently, VR.
Notably, Jan served as VICE PRESIDENT, Executive Creative Director AND Producer for Robert Redford | Sundance. OVER 12 formative years, She helped to shape the Sundance brand across all its related organizations; developing and producing content and branded experiences for Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Series, Sundance Resort and Farms, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog and also as VP, Head of CREATIVE/Content for Sundance TV.
Prior to Sundance, Jan was an executive at The Walt Disney Company.
While at Disney, she led creative development for several large-scale new businesses, including an extensive educational brand with an associated learning channel for Disney-ABC Networks; Disney’s first Regional Entertainment concept: Disney ClubHouse, and several digital innovation projects with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Before coming to Disney, Jan created and executive-produced one of Nickelodeon-Nick Jr’s premiere preschool series.
She considers herself fortunate to have begun her career at Children’s Television Workshop in New York. For six life-changing years, she was mentored by some of the finest and most generous minds in media history, otherwise known as the people who created Sesame Street.