Darin Costa

D. Vincent Costa was born and raised in the Port Town of San Pedro, California on September 28, 1968. He is the youngest male to the parents of Clement and Annie. Horror and Science Fiction films being his first love, he was mesmerized by a viewing of Fritz Lang's Metropolis at the age of 12. This film would give him the desire to be an independent movie maker. Darin attended The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where he enrolled in continuing education and workshops in Screenwriting under Linda Cowgill. Simultaneously he also majored in liberal arts studies at several community colleges. Always having the passion to direct a short subject film, he got his chance in 1999 with a project titled Roommate. The short Roommate was made in two weekends for less than $200 and a handful of friends as cast and crew. He followed it with an unreleased short titled Traffic School. Traffic School took several days, and cost approximately $150. In 2009, he was cast in an acting role as the villainous Lt. Jacob Rinaldi in the zenfilm Vampire Abstracta, and a later edited Vampire Sunrise. The zenfilm style is a scriptless technique created by Director Scott Shaw, and is a series notorious in the Japanese underground film culture. His collaborative effort of scriptwriting is developed with his writing partners Eric Karnes and Johnny Romo. Karnes and Romo were both cast as the main characters in his first two films. Darin is working on producing 2 more projects through his company Fuzzy-Pixel Films. These projects are, as of now, untitled. However, the Suspense/Thriller film titled "The Walsh Assignment" is in preproduction. He is also credited on past projects as Render, an alias/handle he used while running a Mafia-like Hacker organization in his teen years. D. Vincent Costa resides in San Pedro, California with his 4 children, Melanie, Christopher, Kubrick (obviously named), and Vincent. Melanie served as Production Assistant on Traffic School and later produced her own documentary in a high school project.