Sam Spring
has been making films since childhood, starting with a video cassette camera and a cast of LEGO, later building those skills in the Carlsbad broadcasting program in middle and High school.
Favorite Artists: Laurie Anderson, Nicolas Winding Refn, David Lynch, Captain Beefheart, Ian Simpson, and Eugene Hütz
Blog: tremonds.tumblr.com
Gil Odgers
was in an episode of Flavor of Love (S03E05) in 2008, wherein the prospective suitors of Flavor Flav attempted to read stories to a group of children (including the impressionable young Gil). Ever since that day, Gil has had storytelling in their veins, a passion for literature on the paper and on film as well.
Favorite Artists: Wes Anderson, Alison Bechdel, Daveed Diggs, Sam Spring, and the incomparable Flavor Flav
What is Wunderkind?
WUNDERKIND films was founded in the Summer of 2016 by Sam Spring and Gil Odgers. The writing-directing duo was about to head off to the School of Creative and Performing Arts at NYU and realized "We need a place to put those films we're gonna make!"
Since SOCAPA, Gil and Sam have been joined by several other student filmmakers to create dozens of short films and projects under the WUNDERKIND flag.
Awards
2nd Place, Student Television Network Short Fiction Crazy 8, 2017
3rd Place, Student Television Network Fall Challenge Film, 2016