Christian Ackerman is a Los Angeles-based producer, writer, and director who began his career as a production assistant at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Since then, he produced 28 feature films including Collide, Deltopia, Private Property, Bethany, and Family Vanished. As a director, Christian's short films have won over 30 film festival awards with 50+ nominations. In 2018 he founded Black Vortex Cinema, a production, publishing, and events company starting with the My Favorite Horror Movie trilogy of books, featuring essays by 150 horror film legends and luminaries. In 2020, Christian produced and directed Joe Bob's Haunted Drive-In, a haunt/film festival/horror host anthology hybrid that sold out the 19 acre Rose Bowl lot on Halloween night. The hardcore horror film Night of the Bastard that he co-wrote and produced will be out in 2022.