Feature Films
Adam's Fire
Producer · Writer
A grieving father trades faith for vengeance in a town that has long forgotten both.
Sliding Scale Studios · Battleborne Comics
Chad D. Ayinde
Cinematic storytelling and cross-platform narratives — combat-forged content built at the intersection of family, faith, and survival.
Official Selections & Festival Laurels
About
Combat-forged storytelling from a fish-out-of-water lens.
Chad D. Ayinde is an Army Veteran and multi-time award-winning Creative Producer, writer, and director based in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Film Producing from the New York Film Academy (LA) and is an honor graduate of Pennsylvania State University.
An alumnus of the Writers Guild Foundation's Veterans Writing Project and the Academy of Nicholl Fellowships' Diverse Reader Workshop, his work has earned festival Best of Show awards globally and screened at the Steven J. Ross Theatre at Warner Bros.
A caramel kid born into a Black and white world, his work explores family, faith, and survival in spaces not built for traditional success — bending genres with a "fish out of water" perspective rooted in inclusion, cross-platform storytelling, and authentic voice.
U.S. Army Veteran · Co-Founder, Battleborne Comics
Creative content forged from combat.
Sliding Scale Studios
Executive Services, honestly priced.
Pricing operates on a professional Sliding Scale — no fixed dollar amounts. Rates flex with scope, stage, and resources so the work serves the project, not the rate card.
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Script Coverage
Professional read-through, analysis, and rating of short, television, or feature scripts judged on premise, story, structure, characterization, and dialogue.
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Development Notes
Strategic recommendations for improved marketability and positioning, grounded in current market trends and buyer-side insight.
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Project Management
A hand-in-hand partner across development, pre-production, production, and post — budget design, staffing, location sourcing, and permit support.
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1st Assistant Director
On-set scheduling and safety officer driving timelines so the project lands on time, on budget, and on set with everyone going home whole.
Portfolio
Creative Works
A curated showcase of feature films, short films, and graphic novels forged from authentic perspectives.
Feature Films
You Are Here
Producer
Two strangers chase a single coordinate across a country that no longer feels like home.
Short Films
Assassins Guild of America
Producer · 1st AD
Bureaucracy meets bloodshed when America's deadliest union holds its annual board meeting.
Short Films
Eye of the Beholder
Producer · Director
A portrait artist begins to see things in her subjects they refuse to admit about themselves.
Short Films
Chapter & Hearse
Writer · Producer
A funeral director moonlighting as a true-crime novelist accidentally writes the next victim.
Battleborne
Comic Books
Hath No Fury #1
Co-Creator · Battleborne Comics
A war widow turns the scripture she was raised on into the weapon they never saw coming.
Battleborne
Comic Books
Hath No Fury #2
Co-Creator · Battleborne Comics
The reckoning expands. Old gods, new enemies, and a sisterhood forged in fire.
Battleborne
Comic Books
Hath No Fury #3
Co-Creator · Battleborne Comics
Faith is a battlefield. The final chapter of the first arc draws its sharpest line yet.
Voices
From the writers' room to the set.
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Chad's coverage didn't just tell me what wasn't working — it told me what the script was actually trying to be. I rewrote my second act in a weekend.
Mara Whitfield
Independent Screenwriter
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He ran my set like it was a Sunday service and a battalion at the same time. Calm, deliberate, and nobody went into overtime. Rare in indie film.
Devon Park
Director, ‘Lowlight’
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Sliding Scale Studios stepped into our pre-pro three weeks out and saved the shoot. Budget reorg, location swap, permits filed — all without drama.
Isabela Crane
Line Producer
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His notes are the kind you don't argue with at first, then thank him for six months later when the project finally sells.
Tariq Wells
TV Writer / Showrunner-in-Development
Collaborators
The studio circle.
Frequent collaborators across Sliding Scale Studios productions in Los Angeles.
Battleborne Comics
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Reagan Vasquez
Co-Writer / Story Editor
Post Supervision
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Jules Okafor
Demo Editor
Frequent Collaborator
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Sam Halvorsen
Director of Photography
Sliding Scale Studios
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Priya Anand
Production Designer
FAQ
Common questions.
Pricing is determined per-project after a short discovery call. Rates flex with scope, stage of development, and the resources behind the project — so emerging filmmakers and established teams can both be served honestly without a fixed rate card.
Standard turnaround for a feature is 7 business days; shorts and pilots typically return in 3–5. Expedited 48-hour coverage is available on request, subject to slate availability.
A signed safety plan tailored to the location, a documented daily call sheet, departmental check-ins each morning, weapons/SFX protocols when relevant, and a clear chain of command so any cast or crew member can stop work without penalty.
Yes. Sliding Scale Studios works nationally with travel built into the engagement, and remotely for development, coverage, and notes. On-set 1st AD work requires scouting and a pre-pro window discussed during intake.
Strategic Backing
Shaping the future of cross-platform storytelling.
Sliding Scale Studios is actively seeking strategic backing and crowd-funding investors for The Lesser Key — a dark anthology series interrogating what we worship when we worship our technology.
Contact
Let's build something honest.
For coverage, development, production partnerships, or backing The Lesser Key — start the conversation here.
chad@battlebornecomics.com
Phone
(317) 694-2769
Location
Los Angeles, CA
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