Aaron B. Koontz

Aaron B. Koontz is an American producer, writer and director. He is the founder and CEO of Paper Street Pictures, a boutique genre production outlet in Austin, Texas.[1] He is also the creative force behind The Pale Door, the Scare Package franchise and is the lead producer for Shelby Oaks from YouTuber Chris Stuckmann.

Life and career

Koontz was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been a cinephile his entire life, shooting home movies as a child and writing numerous short stories at a very young age.[2] After moving to Florida with his family he went on to attend Full Sail University, where he was a classmate of filmmakers Adam Wingard and E.L. Katz.[3] Koontz graduated in 2001 and worked freelance crew on various film sets including Monster and studio films The Punisher and Out of Time.

In 2003 Koontz took a nearly ten-year detour where he worked in video game production as a producer and QA tester-manager for companies like EA Sports, THQ and Zynga.[4]

In 2012 Koontz left games to start the boutique genre production company Paper Street Pictures.[5] Through Paper Street, Koontz wrote and directed multiple short films including the award-winning Honor Student.[6] In 2014 Koontz was executive producer of the SXSW hit Starry Eyes, and then in 2016 he co-wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, Camera Obscura, for NBC Universal. In 2019 Koontz lead the production team for the Shudder cult hit Scare Package, of which he also was the core story co-writer and director as well as the final segment director with Horror Hypothesis. In 2020 Aaron co-wrote, directed and produced The Pale Door, a horror-western he released with the help of executive producer Joe R. Lansdale.

In 2022 Koontz produced The Requin, starring Alicia Silverstone. He is also a producer on multiple upcoming horror and thriller films including The Bunker, Old Man, Trim Season,[7] Snow Valley[8] and Revealer,[9] of which he also is writing on the comic book tie in [10] with Vault Comics.

In late 2020 it was announced that Koontz had formed a new genre consulting firm, Blood Oath, with various other industry veterans. Their motto is: "Making Scary Movies Less Scary to make".[11]

Koontz recently announced a sequel to Scare Package, coming to Shudder later in 2022.[12][13]

In March 2022 Koontz and Chris Stuckmann launched a Kickstarter for their upcoming film Shelby Oaks,[14] which went on to break the record as the most funded horror kickstarter of all-time[15] and then began filming in May and June in and around Ohio.[16]

Filmography
Year Title Notes
2014 Starry Eyes Executive Producer
2017 Camera Obscura Writer, Producer, Director
2019 Scare Package Writer, Producer, Director, Concept By
2020 The Pale Door Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
2020 15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot Executive Producer
2020 The Pizzagate Masacre Executive Producer
2020 The Stylist Production Consultant
2022 The Requin Producer
2022 Revealer Producer
2022 Old Man Producer
2022 Blood Relatives Producer
2022 Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge Writer, Producer, Director, Created By
2022 Snow Valley Producer
2023 Trim Season Executive Producer
Post-production
2023 The Bunker Producer
Post-production
2023 Sorry About The Demon Producer
Post-production
2023 Shelby Oaks Producer
Post-production
2023 A Creature Was Stirring Producer
Post-production

References
  1. "Best Pandemic Production House: Paper Street Pictures". www.austinchronicle.com.
  2. "Interview with Aaron B. Koontz (Scare Package)". Back Lot 605.
  3. Navarro, Meagan (July 7, 2021). "These Horror Filmmakers All Graduated from Full Sail University in Florida".
  4. "Aaron B. Koontz Video Game Credits and Biography". MobyGames.
  5. "Pandemic Production, One Year Later: Aaron B. Koontz, Co-founder, Paper Street Pictures". www.austinchronicle.com.
  6. "Honor Student || Featured Short Film".
  7. Couch, Aaron (November 4, 2021). "Horror Thriller 'Trim Season' Sets Cast".
  8. "Cooper Van Grootel, Tom Williamson, Barbara Crampton to Star in Brandon Murphy's 'Snow Valley' (Exclusive)". May 19, 2021.
  9. Squires, John (May 16, 2022). "'Revealer' Trailer – Shudder and 'Hack/Slash' Creator Take You Back to 1987 This Summer".
  10. Johnston, Rich (May 19, 2022). "Vault Comics To Publish Tie-In Comic To Revealer Movie, From Shudder". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors.
  11. Grater, Tom (November 19, 2020). "Genre Film Consulting Firm Blood Oath Launches With Chamber Thriller 'Old Man' & Horror 'Slashman'".
  12. "Exclusive: We're Getting A SCARE PACKAGE Sequel And Aaron B. Koontz Is Here To Tell Us About It". FANGORIA.
  13. "'Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge' Is Coming To Shudder [Trailer]". December 14, 2021.
  14. Wiseman, Andreas (July 6, 2021). "YouTuber Chris Stuckmann To Make Horror Movie 'Shelby Oaks' About Missing Paranormal Investigators".
  15. Wiseman, Andreas (March 25, 2022). "Chris Stuckmann Horror Project 'Shelby Oaks' Flies Past $1M On Kickstarter, Studios Come Calling".
  16. Wiseman, Andreas (May 20, 2022). "Chris Stuckmann's Kickstarter Horror Record-Breaker 'Shelby Oaks' Begins Production, Reveals Cast — Cannes".
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