Charlie Griak

Charlie Griak is an ambitious filmmaker and visual artist with over 15 years of professional experience as a director, writer, storyboard artist, animator, and illustrator.

He has directed and edited four independent feature films: End of the Rope (2023), A Heart Like Water (2022), Nina of the Woods (2019) and The Center (2015).

Griak is also the creator of the award winning animated film FEVER, an eight-minute narrative inspired by the themes of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. It is comprised of nearly 4000 of his hand-drawn illustrations.

Always striving to improve himself as an artist, Charlie has studied marble sculpture in Pietrasanta, Italy, and attended the prestigious Illustration Academy in Florida. Both years he was selected as the top student by the faculty.