John Gonzales, award-winning filmmaker of "Y2K: Shut Down Detected", discovered horror films at an early age. But wasn't until he saw John Carpenter's Halloween, that he knew he wanted to make movies. He began writing short stories for several years, in hopes of making them into movies, before finally getting his hands on a VHS Camcorder in the early 1980's. He corralled his childhood friends into acting out his creations from kung fu fighters to flesh-eating zombies. He would edit his movies from VCR to VCR.

In 1993. shortly after graduating from Fresno State University earning a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications, with an emphasis in production, he produced his first feature film, "The Crier", aka: "Demones", which screend at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 1995.

John moved to Los Angeles in 1995, pursuing his childhood dream. He wrote a feature-length script entitled, "Y2K", and went into production in 1997 with production partners, Slava Siderman and Trent Shumway, eventually creating the award winning short film based on the feature length script, as a writer, producer, actor, editor, and director.

In 2002, John co-produced the feature movie, "Shining On", with his longtime friend and collaborator, Jason Fenton while simultaneously co-producing and co-directing with Slava, the documentary, "48", an inspirational season of high school football in the San Fernando Valley. Both movies are currently in post-production.

He recently completed the short, dark comedy, "It's Over, Honey" and is currently developing and writing feature-length screenp;ays for all genres, including the horror screenplay, "Isolation" with Unhinged Cinema partner, Slava Siderman.