Charles Pieper is a 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.

More recently he wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Sam Fox film ‘Eveningstar’ as well as co-wrote the feature length stop motion film 'Heads' currently in preproduction with the animation company Mackinnon and Saunders. He attended Emerson College in Boston as well as studied film and animation at FAMU, NCSA, Calarts, and MassArt.

"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)