Christopher Bavelles

Chris Bavelles Bio - Before Chris was a Director / Producer he was a dedicated athlete playing college basketball and then professional Basketball in Europe. Sports taught Chris a lot about hard work, never giving up and teamwork. After two seasons of European basketball, Chris returned home to Los Angeles In the 90's Chris jumped into Commercials and Reality TV, creatively working on such shows as: The Adventures of Mark & Brian, Worlds Greatest Stunts, HBO Entertainment News, The Home Show and The NBA on NBC Sports. Chris became the Supervising Producer and Director of Home Video Production & Development for Playboy Enterprises. In his 4 year stay with Playboy Chris created and produced 42 Home Videos all shot on film. At the same time Chris also created two successful reality style programs for PBTV "Sexy Girl Next Door" and "7 Lives Exposed" and came up with the idea for Playboys first live simultaneous Web/TV cast called "Club Lingerie" which turned out at the time to be one of the largest live events produced on the web getting an astounding 565,000 visits. In the weeks to follow Playboy Online got over 20 million page views which helped grow Playboy's online presence. Commercials include DIrt Devil (Fred Astaire) Levi Jeans, Playing Anywhere... Music videos - ATT Will, "Just Another Day in Compton", Emily Coupe "Missing You" Since 2003 Chris has dedicated himself to creatively producing and directing a variety of reality & doc style programs. Projects include Tanked, Miss Universe for NBC, The NBA on TNT, HBO's Journey of The African American Athlete, Mike Holmes, The Outdoor Room for HGTV, American Ninja Warriors, Take Home Chef for TLC, The Antonio Treatment, Renovation Nation for Discovery, The Real Estate Pros for TLC, Merge with Lisa Rinna for Lifetime, Home Made Simple for OWN, 69 Sexy Things To Do Before You Die for Playboy and Strictly Dr. Drew for Discovery. Recent Projects include Corrupt Crimes and Motive to Murder for Netflix, 5 Season of The Great Food Truck Race, WWE's Breaking Ground, Tanked for Animal Planet, 90 Day Fiancee, Ghost Asylum, Top Hooker, Food Paradise, Mike Holmes Buy It Right. Chris currently gets hired through his production company CB Tweak Entertainment and has several pilots in the works.