Chris LaMont

Chris LaMont is an independent filmmaker who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University and dreamed of being a filmmaker since fourth grade. He has been a writer, director and producer on such projects as TV or Not TV, The Best Movie Ever Made, Writer's Block, Film Club, 14 Days in America, Netherbeast Incorporated, Screen Wars, My Apocalypse, The Graves, Justice Served, Postmarked, Rhea, The Au Pair Nightmare and Hard Kill. In 2000, he started the Phoenix Film Festival, the non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation, Phoenix Film Society, IFP - Phoenix and co-founded the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, the Arizona Student Film Festival and The Arizona College Film Festival. His screenwriting with partner Joe Russo includes Three-Time BloodList Winners, The Hit List, and 101 Top New Screenwriters in Holllywood, Screenplays include Road Rage, Soul Mates, The Red Pill, and The Last Will & Testament of Charles Abernathy. Their screenplay Au Pair Nightmare was filmed and sold to Lifetime in Spring 2020 and the action-thriller script Hard Kill starring Bruce Willis was released in the Top 10 of Netflix movies in Fall 2020. He has also taught at Arizona State University since 2004, produced hundreds of marketing, educational and promotional projects, wrote Great Comedy Films: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Funny Movies, and is married to his amazingly patient wife Lisa and is a pretty good Dad to his kids Luke and Lindsay.