Nate Ruegger
Co-Writer/Director
Sharing a birthday with Edgar Allen Poe, Nate was born to the horror & thriller genres. His first memory was hiding behind his fingers while watching “Ghostbusters.” His bedtime stories were “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.” His family movie nights were Hitchcock double features. At an early age, he had the good fortune to work for Steven Spielberg — and after that, there was no turning back.
Nate's passion for writing & directing psychological genre thrillers took him to Dartmouth College, USC's School of Cinematic Arts, and the festival circuit with the viral short TRUST ME (reviewed by Bloody Disgusting as "nightmare fuel") while garnering acclaim along the way — such as Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and a nomination for Best Director at Nightmares Film Festival.
Currently, Nate is writing & shopping a number of sci-fi and horror projects.
Leslie O’Neill
Co-Writer/Co-Producer
Leslie O’Neill hails from San Diego, CA. She grew up watching her grandfather perform on stage and fell in love with the arts at an early age. Leslie graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Mass Communications and Film Studies and was President of the Berkeley Film Organization GIANT, where she wrote, produced, and starred in dozens of short and feature films. She moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became a film publicist, where she worked on strategic award campaigns for major studio films, including “Inception,” “The Social Network,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Les Misérables,” and Disney’s “Frozen.”
Her short TRUST ME screened at a variety of film festivals, including Dances with Films, Nightmares Film Festival, and Crimson Screen, and received distribution with Alter. Leslie's recent film THE RECIPE, a psychological horror short starring Ashlynn Yennie, is currently hitting the festival circuit.