Talent Guide

Aron Kantor

  • Discipline:Writer/Director
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2025

Bio

Aron Kantor is an award-winning writer, director, producer and artist. Throughout his career, Aron has been committed to telling stories that center queer experience, lives and characters. Aron’s extensive body of short films have been presented in galleries, museums and over 80 film festivals and screenings worldwide. In 2022 he was selected for Sony Pictures Television’s Diverse Directors Program, and his work was recently included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. A series Aron co-created is currently in development at Sony Pictures Television, and he is now fundraising to direct his first feature film from a screenplay he also co-wrote.

Current Project

Stud

Logline

After adopting a hyper-masculine persona for the sake of a job, a genderfluid farmhand’s desperate pursuit of online validation unwittingly attracts the carnal fixations of his psychopathic employers, whom he must escape before they sadistically transform him into the embodiment of their monstrous fantasies.