Charles Pinion is a visual artist and director who made the punk rock skateboard zombie movie Twisted Issues (1988), the post-Cinema of Transgression witches in the snow movie Red Spirit Lake (1992) and the gritty San Francisco cannibal movie We Await (1996). His 3D feature American Mummy premiered at the Revelation Film Festival in Australia (2014). His latest is the short film Try Again, "a hopeful film about suicide". Charles lives in Los Angeles.