Samuel Patthey was born in Berlin in 1993. He is the son of an architect and a painter and spent a lively childhood immersed in art, culture and creativity. He studied Animation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). In 2016, he spent half a year at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art  in Tel Aviv. Living in Israel was a source of inspiration that he used in directing Travelogue Tel Aviv which won many prizes  at festivals around the world. Since 2018, he has worked as a film animation director at Fribourg in Switzerland.