Born in Hollywood, California in the summer of 1972 to an actress/poet mother and screenwriter father, Chris left school at age 16 through a work experience program to pursue a career in acting. After a few small B-movie roles and some brief work on David Lynch's quirky television series TWIN PEAKS, Chris worked as a production secretary at Concorde Pictures, the infamous film studio owned by movie king Roger Corman. "Their style of filmmaking really impressed me. It was like a factory. They would just come up with an idea and then a few weeks later they had a completed film. Here I was, 17 years old and surrounded in this whole high-paced "just do it" atmosphere. It totally made me realize that you can pretty much achieve anything if you just put your mind to it." A few months after his 18th birthday, Chris left Concorde, and spent the next 5 years working at Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine. "It was such a great learning experience. I got to learn practically every aspect of the entertainment industry and I loved every minute of it." During this time, Chris began filming a black & white short film called "HOLLYWOOD GRIND" - a look at 60's go-go girls, prostitutes, and female criminals set to crazy beatnik go-go music. After finishing his short film, Chris decided to focus completely on making movies. He left the magazine to form his own Production Company, and got a day job working as a Phone Sex operator. "The crazy thing is, I took the phone job for quick money and easy hours, but 99% of the job is using your creativity and coming up with weird, interesting dialogue and stories, so I actually learned how to write screenplays from being a phone sex operator." Chris began shooting SUPERSTAR FEMALE SERIAL KILLER in the Fall of 1998 and the film was completed in mid-1999. "The movie turned out very crazy and funny. It was intended to be a really dark drama, but we had so much fun laughing and being silly during filming, the movie just formed into a total comedy soap opera. I would have it no other way now." Chris finished filming his second feature LIPGLOSS EXPLOSION, a glossy Science-Fiction comedy in September of the year 2000, and is currently working on his third film titled STATELESS, which is set to release in March of 2001.
