Chris LaMont is an independent filmmaker who co-founded the Phoenix
Film Festival in 2000 and is currently the President of the National
Advisory Board. He has produced and directed several independent
films, including Film Club, My Apocalypse, Netherbeast Incorporated,
The Graves, Justice Served and Postmarked. Along with screenwriting
partner Joseph Russo, he has written Hard Kill starring Bruce Willis
and The Au Pair Nightmare that premiered on the Lifetime Network. They
currently have several screenplays in development and are currently
represented by The Gersh Agency and Fictional Entity Management in Los
Angeles. He has been teaching at Arizona State University since 2004
in the ASU New American Film School - such courses as Film: The
Creative Process, Intermediate Screenwriting, Producing for Film &
Media, Careers in Media Industry and created two popular online
classes: Great Comedy Films and Alfred Hitchcock.Growing up in
Phoenix, Arizona - LaMont graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State
University, and while there he won an Emmy Award for Student
Entertainment Production for the sketch comedy series, TV or Not TV.
He directed his first feature with Steve Bencich (screenwriter of
Brother Bear, Chicken Little and Open Season), The Best Movie Ever
Made featuring TV’s Batman, Adam West. His next feature, Writer’s
Block, was released to video stores, and the horror-thriller earned
critic and fan praise, including a 3½ star rating in the Blockbuster
Video Guide.In 2000, he directed and co-wrote Film Club, a short film
parody of David Fincher’s Fight Club. It was included on the George
Lucas in Love DVD, one of the biggest short film compilation releases
in history. The film was featured on CNN Headline News and MSNBC.com.
Later, he directed the documentary feature 14 Days in America, and in
2006 he produced with Brian and Dean Ronalds the office-vampire comedy
Netherbeast Incorporated, which was released in North America on DVD
in January 2009 by Illuminata Films.In 2008, he also produced the
animated logos for "R&D TV" for writer/director Jerry Hultsch that
appear on the end of the Season 4 episodes of SyFy Channel's
Battlestar Galactica.
Film Festival in 2000 and is currently the President of the National
Advisory Board. He has produced and directed several independent
films, including Film Club, My Apocalypse, Netherbeast Incorporated,
The Graves, Justice Served and Postmarked. Along with screenwriting
partner Joseph Russo, he has written Hard Kill starring Bruce Willis
and The Au Pair Nightmare that premiered on the Lifetime Network. They
currently have several screenplays in development and are currently
represented by The Gersh Agency and Fictional Entity Management in Los
Angeles. He has been teaching at Arizona State University since 2004
in the ASU New American Film School - such courses as Film: The
Creative Process, Intermediate Screenwriting, Producing for Film &
Media, Careers in Media Industry and created two popular online
classes: Great Comedy Films and Alfred Hitchcock.Growing up in
Phoenix, Arizona - LaMont graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State
University, and while there he won an Emmy Award for Student
Entertainment Production for the sketch comedy series, TV or Not TV.
He directed his first feature with Steve Bencich (screenwriter of
Brother Bear, Chicken Little and Open Season), The Best Movie Ever
Made featuring TV’s Batman, Adam West. His next feature, Writer’s
Block, was released to video stores, and the horror-thriller earned
critic and fan praise, including a 3½ star rating in the Blockbuster
Video Guide.In 2000, he directed and co-wrote Film Club, a short film
parody of David Fincher’s Fight Club. It was included on the George
Lucas in Love DVD, one of the biggest short film compilation releases
in history. The film was featured on CNN Headline News and MSNBC.com.
Later, he directed the documentary feature 14 Days in America, and in
2006 he produced with Brian and Dean Ronalds the office-vampire comedy
Netherbeast Incorporated, which was released in North America on DVD
in January 2009 by Illuminata Films.In 2008, he also produced the
animated logos for "R&D TV" for writer/director Jerry Hultsch that
appear on the end of the Season 4 episodes of SyFy Channel's
Battlestar Galactica.
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