Born in San Diego, California, Sam spent his formative years growing up in Cape Town, South Africa where he spent most of his free time making genre-inspired crime and horror films as well as off-the-wall comedies. He is currently a Junior at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts studying Film & Television Production as well as pursuing a double minor in Producing and the Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology. Since his enrollment at NYU, Sam has been involved in dozens of short film projects in a wide variety of capacities, from primary crew positions, to assisting crew positions, writing, directing, and even acting. Sam currently interns at Hayden 5 Media, a rising commercial and video production company, and is producing a number of short student films.

In addition to filmmaking Sam has a passion for art, music, traveling, culture, food, people, science, literature, sports - pretty much everything really.