Chris Kostrzak is a writer, producer, shooter, editor, and director of television, documentaries, music videos, and branded content.
His work has been shown at NY Fashion Week, The LA Film Festival, The Future of Storytelling Summit, Acme Art NYC, The Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, on Vice, Noisey, NME, Yahoo! News, Japan Times, and a number of other blogs and magazines.
Some of Chris’ past clients include HBO Max, BBC, Nat Geo, MeidasTouch, MTV, T-Mobile, Beats, Apple, Ford Motor Company, Allstate, Manchester United, Major League Soccer, Aon, Microsoft, Target, Interscope Records, Island/Def Jam, Levi’s, UCLA, Special Olympics, Octagon, Le Sang Bleu, and musical acts Zedd, Guns N' Roses, MXMS, Solange, and Drama.
He has directed multi-episode documentary-style campaigns for brands including Ford Motor Company, Allstate Insurance, and T-Mobile, collaborating with subjects ranging from MLS soccer legends to Grammy Award-winning recording artist Zedd. He also served as a producer on the documentary Zedd: True Colors, which premiered at the LA Film Festival.
For HBO Max, he was a producer, editor, and field director on three seasons of the top-rated ”Alaska: The Last Frontier.” More recently, he was a supervising producer and field director on the double-decade hit paranormal series, “Ghost Hunters,” and an editor on “Port Protection” for BBC/Nat Geo, part of the Emmy award-winning “Life Below Zero” franchise.
Most recently, he wrote, produced, edited, composed and performed the score for Autonomous’ inaugural release, the 10-episode investigative documentary podcast Taming Lyons.
Taming Lyons tells the epic true story of the tenacious Lyons Little League mom who risked her life and ran for mayor to help the Feds take down the Chicago mob in “Operation Safebet,” the most successful organized crime vice sting in U.S. history. But Taming Lyons is not only a story about the past.
The series, driven by the personal stories of over three dozen interviewees from both sides of the law, also traces Lyons’ legacy of infamy to present day, as a new generation of residents confronts fresh political controversy and growing public distrust surrounding Lyons’ scandal-plagued mayor, Chris Getty, who recently announced a run for U.S. Congress.
Taming Lyons premieres August 12, 2026 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and Patreon.