Colton Van Til is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His debut feature, Aberdeen (2019), was completed after his freshman year of film school and went on to receive international distribution and a limited theatrical release. His second feature, Meltdown: A Nuclear Family's Ascension into Madness (2023), has screened to sold-out audiences at major genre festivals including Fantaspoa and Macabro FICH, and earned him the George A. Romero Fellowship.

A graduate of Loyola Marymount's School of Film and TV, Van Til crafts emotionally driven narratives about people caught in the machinery of broken institutions. His early work tackled a Me Too scandal inside a high school sports department, setting the tone for a career committed to politically resonant, character-driven storytelling. Born and raised outside Seattle, he now lives and works in Los Angeles.

Meltdown: A Nuclear Family's Ascension into Madness

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