Sam began life as just another San Francisco techie, resigned to the clickety-clack life of engineering. While he still works for a paycheck every day, he decided to live a little bit and work in indie film as a screenwriter and director. He hopes one day the Bay Area film scene will make a glorious comeback.

His work spans genres from satire to horror, often with a focus on social and class dynamics. He has written three feature-length screenplays (about, respectively: the young Stalin, model conspiracies in Los Angeles, and techie hostage crises), and more than 10 short scripts. He has directed two short films.

Never Say You're Sorry (in collaboration with Encounters Film Collective) screened at the 2023 Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco. His second short film is in post-production, and will probably screen in an abandoned mineshaft in Siberia when it is done.