
Chad Costen
Directing
Biography
Chad began his career in animation and props production, having spent many years developing his skills on both personal projects and commercial productions including: BLADE 2 (Feature), DREAM KEEPER (Feature), HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (TV) and CAITLIN’S WAY (TV). Chad’s talent and interests range from costume design and creature effects to puppetry and post-production, but his main focus has always been on storytelling. The desire to produce thoughtful work and explore meaningful ideas, while combining his varied interests and skill-sets into one career, has evolved into a lifestyle that is absolutely dedicated to independent filmmaking.
Known For

The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, John Waters, Fiona Dourif, Perrey Reeves, Gerrit Graham, David Kirschner, and dozens more.
Doc of Chucky

GAIA, the spirit of the Earth, possesses an advanced humanoid robot that wanders in search of Jacob, a misanthropic Television Journalist. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between the darkly kindred spirits as GAIA begins to exterminate the “human problem” by use of our own technology. Eventually Jacob is the only soul that can save the human race, but having witnessed so many of the wrongs our species has done, the real question is... should he?
Gaia: The Series

A young girl with a special gift comes of age during one of the most desolate periods in American history in this dark Dust Bowl fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."
Charlotte's Song

Death touches a little girl's soul by granting her fondest wish on Christmas Eve.
Death Wish

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life.
Cherry Blossoms in March

This Proof-of-concept Video is part of a pitch package. Chad Costen is assembling to demonstrate what a live-action version of the Legend of Zelda series might look like. This is a personal fan-based project.
The legend of Zelda : A Missing Link
is a music-driven Lovecraftian story about finding a sense of purpose in a dispassionate universe.
The music of Erika Zann ( TBA)

A young hippie woman goes to this Legion to find the pilot of the Mosquito fighter-bomber in which her father was the navigator during WWII. The woman's father, who recently died, has sent her to give this pilot a letter. The letter contains a surprising revelation.
Wendy 1968

Five former summer camp misfits reconnect under some seriously suspicious circumstances and soon discover that their worst nightmares were true.
Mister Sandman
Alice finds herself fleeing the horrors of an apocalyptic Wasteland and is helped along her dark adventure by a pair of conjoined twin brothers, simply because Tweedle-Dum wants to make a friend.
The looking glass

Tom's protective older sister, Samantha, goes missing and the strange events surrounding her disappearance become a match that sets aflame a small town's racial mistrust and mass hysteria eleven years later. In 1997, when tension in the Middle-East is prominent, the future of our world remains uncertain. Tom begins to have terrifying dream memories and finally decides to uncover the truth behind his sister's disappearance. Tom attempts to confront Ezzedine, an old Arabic recluse who harbors the answers to all of his questions concerning Samantha's vanishing. But the suspicious hermit is being viciously pursued by a police officer whose sanity spins wildly out of control. A last desperate act sends Tom home to protect his family and it is there that the greatest secret is revealed. For Tom's story is that of a witness to the tragedy of our world. A witness to... The Coming.
The Coming

Olivia thought her time at Camp Somni would be a nightmare, but never expected to be so right. The 13-year-old faces her greatest fears when a boy with no name leads her into the woods, which hold the dark and sinister secrets of MISTER SANDMAN.
Mister Sandman : Olivia's Ghost

Sven is just a simple, small town kid who is always left behind... even when his entire family is abducted by aliens. But, as his family explains, you have to be "special" to take a ride on in UFO.
Sven
A2B is a paradoxical event that tells the tale of a split mind and a guilty conscience.
A2B
Eddie Scarugi is the king of the Chicago underworld. When he finally takes a bullet during a prohibition raid, his soul is sent on a journey with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. But unlike the traditional Scrooge incarnation, mobsters tend to look fate in the face on a daily basis and the only thing that will make Eddie change his ways is betrayal by his one true love.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Scarugi.

Ever wondered why the werewolf howls at the moon? Walter will show you.
Walter and the Moon
The truth lies somewhere between God and Science.