FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

TONY E.
VALENZUELA

Tony created BlackBoxTV in 2010 out of a simple conviction: horror deserved better. What started as an independent YouTube channel became the longest-running horror channel on the platform - a creative home for bold, uncompromising genre storytelling built entirely without studio gatekeepers.

Over 15 years, Tony has directed across features, scripted series, and large-scale unscripted productions. His feature The Axe Murders of Villisca was released through IFC Midnight and Netflix. He created Fight of the Living Dead, the world's first zombie survival reality series, which ran on YouTube Red and was covered by Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. He recently completed his second feature, FKD UP!

Tony has collaborated with Guillermo del Toro, Ron Howard & Brian Grazer, Wes Craven, Dan Trachtenberg, and Anthony E. Zuiker, and has worked with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Legendary Entertainment, and New Line Cinema.

Everything at BlackBoxTV is owned outright. No studio compromise. Just original IP, built from the ground up - distributed across 40+ platforms worldwide.