S. Craig Zahler was born in 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a writer and cinematographer, known for Bone Tomahawk (2015), Asylum Blackout (2011) and Mean Business on North Ganson Street.
Write what you think is good, refine it, send it out, and repeat for many years. Find a day job that is satisfying, and also lets your mind wander so that the only pressure you feel is to become a better writer, not 'get rich in Hollywood'.
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I always believed in my abilities as a writer, but the disparity between what I write and what is made in Hollywood is HUGE. This is very likely why I daily fight to push my scripts forward.
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Fact
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He wrote scripts for 9 years while working as a catering chef.
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Two people fainted at the Toronto International Film Festival, during the premiere screening of the horror movie Asylum Blackout (originally known as Incident at Sans Asylum), which is a script that Zahler wrote while he was still in college. The film was immediately picked up for distribution by IFC Midnight.
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His dark western script The Brigands of Rattleborge won the #1 top position on the Black List for best unproduced screenplay.
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S. Craig Zahler is the author of the western novel, A Congregation of Jackals, which was nominated for both major western writing awards, The Spur and The Peacemaker.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dragged Across Concrete
2018
screenplay announced
Brawl in Cell Block 99
written by filming
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
pre-production
Bone Tomahawk
2015
written by
Asylum Blackout
2011/I
written by
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rooster
2003
Video short
Lucia's Dream
1997
Warsaw Story
1996
Short
August Roads
1995
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Brawl in Cell Block 99
filming
Bone Tomahawk
2015
Dragged Across Concrete
2018
announced
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Headspace
2005
camera operator: "b" camera
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bone Tomahawk
2015
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bone Tomahawk
2015
writer: "Four Doomed Men Ride Out"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Film '72
2016
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
Air Guitar Nation
2006
Documentary
Czar
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Best Feature Film - Avant-Garde and Genre
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
$950,000
