C.C. (Charles) Day is a screenwriter and culture worker helping to create signposts to a brighter collective future. Across film and TV, he specializes in environmental horror, sci-fi, and darkish comedy that dares to expose our essential selves and imagine an evolution of masculinity. Most recently, C.C. won the NRDC NBCUniversal’s 2024 Climate Pitch Fest with his pilot Parish. He also debuted a new comedy microseries, Welcome to Bönnerstan, about two neighbors who secede from America, start their own countries, and go to war.
With a background in the New York and Los Angeles publishing industries and a focus on literary advocacy, C.C. is also the Founder and Publisher of As Is Press, a Los Angeles indie publishing house committed to publishing beautiful, entertaining, and surprising work that speaks to our longing for oneness and connection rather than separation.
C.C. is repped by Kendrick Tan & Shelby Eggers at Lit Entertainment.
Recent Work / In Development
WELCOME TO BÖNNERSTAN
(microseries, pilot)
Neighbors Mike and Bob secede from America, start their own countries, and go to war.
PARISH
(pilot, in development)
When an ancient horror claims the lives of the town’s most vulnerable, three unlikely families come together to exhume its origin and free the lives it has captured.
Set in the vanishing, hauntingly beautiful bayous of Louisiana, Parish is a loving portrait of a land under threat and a diverse community on the front lines of climate collapse, fighting for survival.
An hour-long folk horror drama, this tale is a terrifying exorcism of sorrow, past and present.
Winner of NRDC NBCUniversal’s 2024 Climate Pitch Fest.
QUIETUS
(pilot, available spec)
Maria and her team of psychologists have nearly perfected their revolutionary grief treatment for the dying when a mysterious company unveils a test that can determine anyone’s precise date of death, throwing their work and the world into chaos.
CARRION
(feature, available spec)
Estranged brothers David and Brian Gray arrive at a remote men's retreat looking for reconciliation – but as the camp’s rituals spiral into violence and chaos, their search for healing becomes a psychedelic test that will strip them of everything they knew about what it means to be a man.
THE CRESTVIEW HORROR
(feature, available spec — co-written with Jay Basu)
After moving to the small industrial town of Crestview, the Johnson family is forced to fight for their survival when the townspeople are horribly transformed by an invisible environmental threat.