Sam Petty is an experienced sound designer and mixer with over 20 sound design credits to his name. His feature film credits include The Boys (1997) directed by Rowan Woods, Soft Fruit (1999) directed by Christina Andreef, the New Zealand film Rain (2000), and The Bank (2001) directed by Robert Connelly. Sam has been nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards for sound design in a feature for The Boys and The Bank, as well as for best sound design in a non-feature for his work on ICQ (2001) and Two-Thirds Sky (2002).

Somersault marks Sam's second collaboration with Cate Shortland, as he designed the sound for Flowergirl (1998), which won the award for best sound design at Flickerfest that year.

Peter Smith and Mark Blackwell as the rest of the team who produced the AFI Award winning Sound Design for Somersault.

Sam lives in Sydney and is a director of Big Ears Productions.