Writer/Director Charles Pieper at the 2019 Filmquest Film Festival in Provo, Utah.

Writer/Director Charles Pieper at the 2019 Filmquest Film Festival in Provo, Utah.

Charles Pieper is a Los Angeles based writer/director. He's directed numerous short films and has written several feature screenplays. He is one of the writers of the 2024 Shudder original film 'Destroy all Neighbors' starring Alex Winter and Jonah Ray Rodrigues. 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.

He recently also produced the stop motion short 'Everybody Goes to the Hospital' which travelled the world in the 2022 fest circuit and is now online. He attended Emerson College in Boston as well as studied film and animation at FAMU, NCSA, Calarts, and MassArt. He is managed by Charlie Osowik.

"Charles Pieper's filmmaking is rooted in tradition, but his gifted imagination and superb technique create surprises at every turn and identify a master. He's an A in my book." —Craig Conley, author of One-Letter Words: A Dictionary (HarperCollins)