- Born
- Nickname
- Dusty
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Dusty Austen is a transgender woman and award-winning filmmaker who has been involved in the independent film world for over 20 years. Her interest in filmmaking and her genre of choice, horror, began when she was only 3 years old. She began making her own films at age 12 and played her first film festival by the age of 18. She soon began a consistent career in the independent world working for companies across Ohio & Pennsylvania and eventually expanding to create content for creatives in Ireland, England & Canada.
After working on numerous features, and projects, Austen created a name for herself in the found footage community and founded the GG13 Collective, the creative team behind the award-winning web series GG13: The Haunted World of CW on which she served as show-runner, director, and editor from 2013 to 2019.
She was also the co-host of the Found Footage Files Podcast and Executive Editor for the distribution company POV Horror during its formative years.
Austen and her wife Athena Murzda sought to create a low-budget high concept independent film company that celebrated diversity & creative freedom and soon formed Street Rat Studios, under which their first feature produced was "The Beast of Walton St."
She resides in Ohio with her wife, 2 daughters, and their army of pets.- IMDb Mini Biography By: From Dustin Austen's Personal Bio
- SpousesAthena Murzda(December 30, 2016 - present)Krista Austen(July 27, 2010 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenLayla AustenLyric Austen
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- The first film Dusty remembers seeing as a child was American Werewolf in London.
- Dusty's Australian Cattle Dog is named Bullseye after the Marvel Comics character who is one of the primary villains of Dusty's favorite comic character, Daredevil. Dusty has a Daredevil DD symbol tattooed on her chest.
- Dusty's often used pseudonyms are El Hefe Noodleman or John C. Anson. The latter a combination of director John Carpenter and Amityville Horror author Jay Anson. Of whom Dusty is a fan of both. John C. Anson is used primarily for musical contributions while El Hefe Noodleman is used for the director's cameos in her own pictures.
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