BEHIND THE CHAOS

Michael Charron

WRITER / DIRECTOR

Michael Charron is a Texas-based filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, musician, and founder of Rogue Alchemy Pictures and RogueFest Film Festival. For more than twenty-five years, he has created genre-bending stories that use comedy to explore resilience, chosen family, and the ways people help one another carry impossible things.

He has written more than a dozen feature screenplays, produced four feature films, and written and produced a series of award-winning shorts, with his work earning numerous festival selections, awards, and screenplay honors. Whether he is working with time travel, slashers, sports, music, or con artists, Michael is always looking for a way to turn familiar conventions on their heads while finding the humanity underneath them.

Michael Charron wearing colorful glasses and a Muppets sweater, seated in a red chair

ROGUE ALCHEMY PICTURES

Frequent Collaborators

Rogue Alchemy Pictures is the production company run by Michael Charron to bring life to various projects he thinks up. These are a few of the talented people he frequently collaborates with.

COMPOSER

TW Bond

T.W.Bond began creating scores and soundtrack songs for independent projects in Osaka, Japan in 2000. After relocating to Austin TX in 2002, he came to specialize in recreating the Spector Wall-of-Sound style & technique as well as mimicking the distinct nuances of various film score classics. In early 2017, he completed the music, lyrics, and soundtrack of the Adult Swim musical sitcom, The Suplex Duplex Complex. Bond pioneered the idea of the “video flyer” in the early days of YouTube to promote band shows at local venues. He has performed with Nirgilis, Gary Wilson & the Blind Dates, Barry Micron, and the Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Steven Gunter

Steven is a photographer and filmmaker who fell into his craft by accident. He studied vocal performance and pedagogy in college to ensure his ability to either work in retail or be self-employed, and he’s grateful the self-employment thing is working out. Steven’s film work ranges from traveling the world making micro-docs and promo films for NGO’s, clever Kickstarter videos, and music videos for local artists. Typically a team-of-one filmmaker, he’s looking forward to working on more team-based productions.

ACTOR/PRODUCER

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson began acting at the age of 11, in Georgetown, TX, where he performed in stage productions directed by his middle school theater teacher. His feature film debut came in 2001, with a lead role in the indie comedy Jobbers. He has acted in four feature length films, and numerous shorts, two of which have won awards at the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase and the Bare Bones Film Festival. Anderson is also an accomplished voice actor performing a wide range of characters and accents.

ACTOR/PRODUCER

Alyssia Rivera

Alyssia Rivera was born and raised in Kingsville, Texas. She found her passion for theatre and film at a young age and began working in film professionally when she moved to San Antonio in 2010. Since then she has made a name for herself as an award winning actress on the Independent Film Festival Circuit. When she is not on set or preparing for her next role, she enjoys spending time with her dog and her family. In recent years, Alyssia has ventured into producing with her company “Dream to Fly Productions” and has four award winning films under her belt. In the near future she’s looking to branch out into more work behind the camera, writing and directing her own project!