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, 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.
Taming Lyons is set for release in summer 2026.