Chad Daniel Ackerman
Vocalist · Writer · Director
Fronted the bands Destroy the Runner and Chapter 14, and the current voice of AVEIL. Writer, director, and host of the conversation series 🍻BrewFOs🛸. Autistic, curious, and creates from the heart.
create, don’t compete
About
snackermans is an independent studio in San Diego, run as a partnership by Chad and Laura Ackerman: two neurodivergent producers with a passion for making things that matter
Laura Esquibel Ackerman
Producer · raw-clauding
Co-founder and co-producer across everything the studio makes. She created raw-clauding, an open-source method for thinking with AI, and now teaches it publicly and privately one-on-one. AuDHD, human being > human doing.
Create, don’t compete Intention flies the craft Every collaborator is a partner, not a vendor
Series / Film
Horror, sci-fi, action, drama, comedy, animation
Music Videos
Tombs
AVEIL · Directed by Chad Daniel Ackerman
Cronos
AVEIL · Directed by Chad Daniel Ackerman
Short Story
AVEIL · Dir. Rafael Bonita Jr. · Prod. Snackermans
In Production
In Production · coming soon
The universe is in constant peril from aliens, monsters and supernatural forces, but there’s one beer-bellied, cigar-smoking special agent, Tripwire, who can take them down.
▶ Play
Now playable
Play the retro game
A hand-built, retro-style Tripwire platformer. Run through the woods, dodge the wildlife, and take on Sascrotch. Level one is live.
▶ Play the game Best on a computer · keyboard controlsIn the Works
Series · Dark-Comedy Sci-Fi Action
Star Bitch
On a dying Earth, a brilliant physicist races to save her newborn daughter and humanity from a corrupt military-AI unleashed by a war-minded General.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Series · Period Creature HorrorWes
In a Victorian seaside town, a kind old miner loses everything in a single day, goes to sea, and comes back something else: bioluminescent, fanged, and hunting the men who wronged him.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Feature · Dark Mythological ActionHel
A scarred Viking drifter, plagued by the guilt of a childhood tragedy, is pulled toward the goddess of death, and the covenant his mother made with her before he was born.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Feature · Horror / Family DramaBitterroot
Three siblings in a Montana valley carry the damage of a family that never healed. One of them has waited forty years to finish what she started.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Feature · Creature HorrorThe Dover Demon
An ancient creature controls anyone who meets its eyes. A blind teenage girl is the town’s only hope, because she’s the one person it can’t reach.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Short Film · Horror / ThrillerLittle Vengeance
A five-year-old girl, kidnapped by a serial predator and held in his warehouse, fights back with the only weapons she has: her determination to live and the training from her father.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In Development Short Film · Horror / Dark ComedyThe Laundriathan
A dirtbag college kid stops to do laundry on a reservation, unaware the building houses an ancient demon summoned to devour evil men.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Read more → In DevelopmentAVEIL
A heavy melodic rock band from San Diego, founded by lead vocalist Chad Daniel Ackerman (Chapter 14, Destroy the Runner). The three albums form a 14-year arc from The In Between to The Great Magician to The Never Ending, landing on a single idea: love is the answer, and consciousness goes on forever
A conversation series hosted by Chad Daniel Ackerman, where interesting people join the discussion on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP/UFOs), philosophy, history, and religion, while drinking beer, coffee, or tea
Intention flies the craft
Ep 27Meagan MedickHost of Unreported, first Executive Producer at NewsNation
Ep 26Vince HallHost of UAP Pod, Army Veteran, Former Pastor
Ep 25Paul Anthony WallisAuthor of the Eden Series, fmr Anglican Archdeacon / Pastor / Church Doctor
Ep 24Austin MooreSpelling to Communicate Practitioner
Ep 23Dr. Iya WhiteleyAviation & Space Psychologist
Ep 22Joey BradfordGuitarist of The Used
Ep 21Timothy HoganGrand Master of the Knights Templar, Author, Lecturer
Ep 20Scott WolterForensic Geologist, Author, Freemason, Templar
Ep 19Pavel IbarraHost of Psicoactivo Podcast
Ep 18Dan ClearyGuitar Tech, Musician, Podcast Host
Ep 17Dr. Garry NolanProfessor of Pathology, Stanford
Ep 16Colin FrangicettoGuitarist of Circa Survive, Artist
Ep 15Steve BassettParadigm Research Group & Hollywood Disclosure Alliance
Ep 14Dan WarrenHost of The 5th Pillar of Emphasis
Ep 13Naomi at HeliaBrewer, Helia Brewing Co.
Ep 12Drew MaillouxVocalist/Lyricist of Rishloo
Ep 11Colin K. BassActor, Writer, Producer
Ep 10Christopher SharpJournalist, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Liberation Times
Ep 09Drew BordersIllustrator, Animator, Muralist
Ep 08Graeme RendallAuthor, Aviation Historian
Ep 07Nik BarkerVocalist of Twelve Foot Ninja, Vocal Coach
Ep 06Chrissy NewtonHost of Rebelliously Curious, Somewhere in the Skies & Alt Pop Repeat podcasts
Ep 05Sean RaaschHost of Witness Citizen Podcast
Ep 04Stan Milford & Jon DoverFederal Rangers of the Navajo Nation
Ep 03Hayley RamseyAuthor, Tour Guide, Esoteric Researcher
Ep 02Vinnie AdamsHost of Disclosure Team Podcast
Ep 01Scott WolterForensic Geologist, Author, Lecturer
raw-clauding
Laura’s open-source method for thinking with AI
How we show up shapes what shows up. raw-clauding is Laura’s method for compound thinking with AI, built in plain files you own. Learn it live, grab the tools for free, or work with her one-on-one
Take the course
Raw-Clauding Bootcamp, live on Maven
Maven →
Get the tools, free
Open-source skills on GitHub, with the full OS starter coming soon
GitHub →
Private one-on-one
A deeper dive into the philosophy and building your own 50/50 thinking partnership with AI, one-on-one with Laura
Email Laura →
Series · Dark-Comedy Sci-Fi Action
Star Bitch
On a dying Earth, a brilliant physicist races to save her newborn daughter and humanity from a corrupt military-AI unleashed by a war-minded General.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Series · Period Creature Horror
Wes
A kind old miner in a Victorian seaside town loses his dying wife, his job, and his dignity in a single day — then goes to sea with Norwegian fishermen, encounters something in the deep, and emerges as a bioluminescent creature with fangs, gills, and glowing purple eyes who hunts those who wronged him.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Feature · Dark Mythological Action
Hel
A scarred Viking drifter, captured by raiders and shipwrecked into the Norse underworld, fights through armies of the dead to confront the goddess Hel — only to discover his mother made a covenant with her before he was born, and the knife he carries is the key to everything.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Feature · Horror / Family Drama
Bitterroot
In the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, three siblings carry the damage of a family that never healed — and one of them has been waiting forty years to finish what she started.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Feature · Creature Horror
The Dover Demon
When a broke, broken-down drifter unleashes an ancient creature from a stone statue he found in his dead uncle’s house, a blind teenage girl becomes the town’s only hope for survival — because she’s the only one it can’t control.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Short Film · Horror / Thriller
Little Vengeance
A five-year-old girl, kidnapped by a serial predator and held in his warehouse, fights back with the only weapons available to her — spit, teeth, a metal chair, and scissors — kills him, walks to a gas station at dawn, and calls her dad.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close
Short Film · Horror / Dark Comedy
The Laundriathan
A dirtbag college kid stops at a laundromat on an Indian reservation to wash his clothes — unaware the building houses an ancient Chinese demon summoned by monks 1,500 years ago to protect the Patwin people by devouring evil humans.
Written by Chad Daniel Ackerman Close