Brian Skiba

Arizonas Filmmaker of the Year and deemed a prolific genre filmmaker by the LA Times Noel Murray April 2019 Brian Skiba is a Director Producer and a Writer of feature films for Screen and Television since 2009 Graduating with a BA in English from Arizona State University Brian fulfilled his passion for storytelling by cowriting and directing Blood Moon Rising 2010 Distributed by Entertainment One the horror comedy found great success in the Zombie genre so much so that Brian was asked to direct the thriller Dirty Little Trick 2011 starring Dean Cain and Michael Madsen and that film premiered as a Showtime Original Since 2012 Brian has produced directed andor written twentytwo feature films all of them premiering on Prime Time TV or in the theaters In 2017 Brian directed the fastpaced female empowerment fight movie Chokehold That same year he directed a Grindhouse Horror Comedy Rottentail based on a graphic novel by the same name and published by Source Point Press The film was released into select theaters and garnered soldout crowds It was also accepted into a slew of international film festivals Most recently Brian directed My Adventures with Santa starring Barbara Eden Denise Richards and Patrick Muldoon for Universal Studios and has a theatrical release Christmas 2019 Universal Studios was so happy with the film theyve asked him to write and direct Christmas Castle 2020 Brians favorite quote from the highly regarded Director Alfred Hitchcock is To make a great film you need three things the script the script and the script