Chad Michael Ward

Cinematographer
Screenwriter and Cinematographer

Umeå, Sweden

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About Chad

Growing up on a steady diet of Star Wars, Godzilla, Dungeons & Dragons, Marvel comics, Pink Floyd, and Led Zepplin in a small Northern California town during the 70s and 80s, I got my start in the digital art movement of the early 90s as an album cover artist for dozens of American and European heavy metal rock acts. In the early 2000s, digital art gave way to fine art photography with a dark aesthetic, merging nerd culture with the rock music and erotica scenes of Los Angeles.

Shortly after, I discovered my love for filmmaking and moved into the world of music videos, directing for legendary musicians Berlin, Billy Idol and Slash.I also contributed cover art to best-selling YA novels “The Vampire Diaries”, “Secret Circle” and the dystopian smash-hit “The Hunger Games”. I eventually joined the film industry as a production designer, working on several high-concept genre films before directing my first feature film--2015’s “Strange Blood” for Bleiberg Entertainment.

More recently, I embraced the world of cinematography with experimental fashion films (2017's "Let the Devil In") and shorts (2021's "Azraelle" and "The Farm", 2023's "When the Shadows Yearn to Breathe").

I re-located from Los Angeles to Umeå, Sweden in 2021.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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FAIRY DUST Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Fantasy A troubled girl who dreams of being a hero finds herself trapped in a dangerous and fantastic land where she must save a beloved princess from a monstrous ruler.
THE HOLE IN THE WORLD Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A suicide survivor’s world is turned upside when she returns to her eerie hometown to confront the ghosts of her past and stumbles upon a mystery that threatens to destroy reality itself.
DESOLATION HEART Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror A traumatized young woman with a unique but uncontrollable ability to move between dimensions must confront both her past and her future, even if it means the end of the world.
THE MIDNIGHT SEASON Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A reclusive magician and an aging detective must join forces with a vigilante witch to hunt down a monstrous killer whose identity threatens to unravel all of their lives.
BLACK KISS STIGMATA Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror When a man struggling with his violent past hunts down his missing lover, he uncovers a deadly secret that threatens to trap him in a hallucinatory fever dream of madness and revelation.
DOOMTOWN Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Comedy 1980s. Heavy Metal. Satan. Copious amounts of gore. Exploding old ladies. Kleptomania. Elvis. Aliens. Slushees. Cigarettes. Vehicular manslaughter. Styx’s “Come Sail Away”. And a strange totem that smells like shit.
STATION Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror A desperate man must find the source of a mysterious frequency that threatens both his sanity and his life.
LEN Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror When a hopeless but unlucky romantic finds the woman of his dreams, he soon finds that desire can become a nightmare as those around him are mysteriously killed one by one.
VIOLET Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Comedy A disaffected woman searching for love and meaning ends a series of unspectacular dates with a hammer in order to get to the bottom of her ennui, only to discover an unlikely date is closer than she thinks.

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Credits

Under the Midnight Sun (2024)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Director / DP
When the Shadows Yearn to Breathe (2023)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Director / DP
By the Hand of Glory She Rises Again (2023)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Fantasy and Horror) Director / DP
The Telephone (2022)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Comedy) Director / DP Man vs. Telephone!
AZRAELLE (2021)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Director / DP
THE FARM (2021)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Director / DP
The Sleep (2021)
Film (short) by Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Writer, Director
STRANGE BLOOD (2015)
Film by Bleiberg Entertainment / Chad Michael Ward (Horror) Writer, Director