Enzo Tedeschi - Founder
Producer, Director, Writer
Enzo is an award-winning Australian Director, Writer, and Producer, and Founder of Deadhouse Films.
Enzo’s varied body of work ranges from viral horror feature film The Tunnel and the Shudder Original Series Deadhouse Dark, to documentaries like Founder, the Food Matters series and the Sydney Film Festival Audience Award Winning theatrical feature documentary The Crossing.
Enzo joined forces with Julian Harvey to write and produce The Tunnel – a project whose innovative approach to funding and distribution saw it hit international cinema screens despite being crowdfunded and simultaneously given away for free online. In addition to reaching a massive global audience of over 25 million, Australia’s first ever crowdfunded feature film garnered Enzo and Julian the Screen Producers Association of Australia Award for Breakthrough Independent Producers Of The Year. This journey is documented in the 2023 documentary The Tunnel: The Other Side of Darkness.
As a Director, Enzo made his theatrical feature film debut with conspiracy thriller Event Zero starring Ash Ricardo (Offspring, RFDS) and Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby, Picnic at Hanging Rock), a remake of his 2012 web series, and was also a creator of A Night Of Horror Volume 1. He has also been an Executive Producer on several films including Beast No More and Dark Whispers Volume 1.
Enzo also created the science fiction series Airlock starring Mark Coles Smith (Last Cab to Darwin, Mystery Road: Origin), as well as producing several productions for the Blackpills mobile streaming platform including Skinford and Skinford Chapter Two. His ongoing commitment as a Creator in the web series space and his work within that community earned him The Michael Ajakwe Jr Lifetime Achievement Award from Melbourne WebFest.
Enzo was the Showrunner of the Shudder Original Series, Deadhouse Dark, which premiered at the prestigious CANNESERIES. He co-wrote and directed the Screen Australia Skip Ahead series Unknown Filter for Saksham Magic, which has amassed more than 1 million views since release.
Enzo was the director and a producer of the documentary series Founder, about Australian tech company founders which is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Enzo will co-direct It Will Find You with Chris Broadbent in 2024 inspired the the short film of the same title. He is developing a feature screenplay with Barbara Bingham based on their short film Over The Edge with support from Screen Australia.
Enzo has also launched an industry learning platform focused on short courses to fill niche ‘knowledge gaps’ at www.levelups.com.au.
You can learn more about Enzo’s non-genre work at his website.