Charles Pieper is a Los Angeles based writer/director. He's directed numerous short films and has written several feature screenplays. He recently sold the script 'Destroy all Neighbors' which will be a Shudder original starring Alex Winter and Jonah Ray in 2024. Charles comes from an animation background, specifically stop motion, but works most frequently in live action production. His short film 'Malacostraca' played in over 30 festivals across the world including top horror fests such as Overlook, Beyond Fest, and Motel X, before premiering online at Director's Notes and then ALTER. The feature length screenplay expansion of it was a horror semi-finalist in the 2021 Austin Film Festival. Beyond the script sale he recently produced the new stop motion animated short 'Everybody Goes to the Hospital' which just premiered on 'Short of the Week.' He attended Emerson College in Boston as well as studied film and animation at FAMU, NCSA, Calarts, and MassArt.
