Writer & Director
Scott’s script for Sizzlean, was selected for the FIND Screenwriters Lab and was a finalist in the Beverly Hills Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. In the process of developing Sizzlean, Scott wrote and directed a short film (also titled Sizzlean) based on the feature script. The short premiered at Cinequest 2008 and was selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner, Dowtown Film Festival Los Angeles, Strasbourg International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, and Clermon-Ferrand Short Film Market and will continue making the festival rounds in 2008. Scott’s most recent script Juarez was a finalist in the trackingb screenwriting contest. Scott’s previous short was a spec television pilot, Fat, Broke and Horny, that screened at the New York Television Festival, New Jersey Film and Television Festival and is currently in the early stages of development as a potential network series. Scott has also directed music videos for the grammy-award-winning band Ok Go, New Maximum Donkey and Vis Winters. Scott’s videos have appeared throughout the world, in the Los Angeles Film Festival, and are currently in release on the companion DVD for Ok Go’s hit album “Oh No”. Beyond writing and directing, in 2007, Scott production managed the directorial debuts of Kirsten Dunst and Kate Hudson as part of the Glamour Reel Moments film series. In 2006, Scott production managed commercials for Johnnie Walker, Hyundai, LG and Korean Air and production supervised part of Slipstream, Academy-Award-winner Anthony Hopkins’ writing and directorial debut (Sundance 2007). In the past, among many film and television projects, Scott was a part of Sundance and Cannes award-winner Me and You and Everyone We Know, D.E.B.S. (Sundance 2004), Harsh Times (Sundance Labs, Toronto 2005), Kissing Jessica Stein (LA Film Fest 2003 Audience Award winner) and the emmy-nominated television show American Family from director Gregory Nava.
Producer
Some of the feature films Chris has been a part of include ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, winner of the 2005 Sundance Special Jury Prize, and the 2005 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and HARSH TIMES, starring Christian Bale and Eva Longoria. In 2006 Chris line produced two feature films, THE HAMMER, starring Adam Carolla and directed by Charles Wurmfeld, and ADVENTURES OF POWER, starring Adrian Grenier and directed by Ari Gold. He also production supervised, IF I HAD KNOWN I’M A GENIUS, starring Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tara Reid, which premiered at Sundance in 2007.
2007 seems to be the year of the shorts for Chris. Two short films that Chris produced are both on their way to becoming feature films, Scott Keiner’s SIZZLEAN and Joshua Leonard’s SPECTACULAR REGRET. He also line produced the Glamour Reel Moments Film Series. This year’s directors included Rita Wilson, Kate Hudson and Kirsten Dunst. Rita Wilson's film is titled THE TRAP and stars Channing Tatum and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Kate Hudson directed CUTLASS, starring Kurt Russell, Chevy Chase, Virginia Madsen and Dakota Fanning. Kirsten Dunst directed the ghost story WELCOME, starring Winona Ryder
Chris is currently prepping two feature films as the line producer with producer Gina Kwon, Miranda July’s FEARLESS and also Miguel Arteta’s TOGETHER through Fox Searchlight.
Between line producing projects Chris is developing films to produce. A feature he co-produced in 2006, UNDOING, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, has an upcoming theatrical release. In 2005, Chris was chosen as one of ten producers to participate in the IFP/FIND Producer’s Lab with the projects WE ARE THE MODS, producing with Miguel Arteta and Scott Keiner’s SIZZLEAN. He is the co-founder of Live Free Or Die Films, a film company under which he currently has two films in development; SUBURBS OF HEAVEN, a New Hampshire based novel adaptation written by Merle Drown and Chris Clancy and SIZZLEAN, written by Scott Keiner. Chris is happy.
