About the Company
Castle Pictures, Inc., is a boutique production house based in Manhattan that creates original scripted and unscripted content for global distribution. We use moving images to tell epic, immersive and transformational stories borne out of exploration, travel, history, the natural world, engineering, sports and every day American life.
The company was founded in 2011 by Christopher Cassel, a Primetime Emmy award-winning producer, writer and director who has spent the past decade circling the globe to bring the world's greatest characters and wonders to life on History, Discovery, Science, Animal Planet, A&E, TLC and Bravo. Most recently, Chris worked as supervising producer and writer, with executive producer Steven Spielberg, on Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, a six-hour mini-series event that premiered on Discovery and Science.
Castle Pictures is pursuing a slate of projects that will take audiences into worlds they couldn't otherwise experience, while revealing something new about their own world. The development pipeline includes Upon This Rock, a scripted serial drama set in Renaissance Rome that chronicles the larger-than-life true characters behind the building of St. Peter's<h3 Basilica, Building Earth, a sweeping documentary series that traces human history through the evolution of architecture and engineering; and Lazarus, a fiction screenplay inspired by Chris' two years filming at Ground Zero for Rising, which follows a traumatized 9/11 survivor in the first year after the attacks.
Castle Pictures is life…on screen.