Sam Yates

Sam Yates is an award-winning British director.

Yates was born in and attended Poynton High School. He was selected as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2016, named a rising star in The Observer in 2014, and featured in GQ Magazine's "Men of the next 25 years" in 2013. Yates has been described as "a major talent" in The Guardian newspaper and "a director of unusual flair" in The Observer. He went to Cambridge University.

Yates has directed two music videos for Ivor Novello Award-nominated band Bear's Den, Auld Wives and Emeralds.