Tyler Kindred is a California-based filmmaker and founder of The Light Shop LA, a boutique post-production studio with clients including Ray-Ban, Oliver Peoples, and Tommy Bahama. His work bridges commercial polish with narrative depth, developing films that fuse history, myth, and political urgency.

His feature project Abbey Gate, under consideration with Angel Studios, dramatizes the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, while his limited series Delta Nine explores the moral fractures of the U.S. Space Force. Kindred also directs lyrical short-form projects such as To Say Farewell Beautifully and American Pirate.

Through what he calls “prophetic cinema,” Kindred seeks to confront illusion, restore mythic clarity, and create stories that resonate with both truth and beauty.

Tyler Kindred is a California-based filmmaker and founder of The Light Shop LA, a boutique post-production studio specializing in cinematic storytelling for global brands including Ray-Ban, Oliver Peoples, and Tommy Bahama.

As a director and writer, Kindred is developing a slate of projects that merge myth, history, and political urgency into narrative cinema. His feature film Abbey Gate—now under consideration with Angel Studios—dramatizes the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, blending stark realism with archetypal resonance. He is also the creator of Delta Nine, an eight-part limited series set within the U.S. Space Force, exploring surveillance, truth, and the moral fractures inside modern defense systems.

Kindred’s work extends into short-form projects such as To Say Farewell Beautifully, a lyrical meditation on the lost romance of the airship era, and American Pirate, a historical epic inspired by Jean Lafitte. Across all his films, he seeks to create what he calls “prophetic cinema”—works that not only entertain but also reveal hidden truths, confront inversion, and restore mythic clarity to audiences.

Balancing commercial and narrative filmmaking, Kindred’s creative philosophy is shaped by an early awareness of propaganda and illusion, and a conviction that cinema must serve as a vessel of revelation. His writing—often drawing on classical archetypes, poetry, and history—aims to craft stories that are as spiritually charged as they are visually cinematic.

Kindred lives and works in Newport Beach and Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, continuing to build a body of work that unites cinema, prophecy, and truth-telling for both commercial and narrative audiences.