Chris Osborn

Chris Osborn is a director and editor based in New York. Gussy, Osborn's most recent work, premiered as one of eleven American short films presented at Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, before screening at Fantasia for its North American premiere, winning jury awards at Indie Memphis and New Hampshire, and continuing its global festival run throughout 2022. Beyond directorial work, Osborn has edited acclaimed music videos for artists such as Mitski, Beach House, and Perfume Genius, and co-produced Lace Crater, Harrison Atkins' feature debut, which premiered at TIFF in 2015. Since 2014, Osborn has hosted D E E P, a traveling screening series of new experimental cinema unearthed from the dark parts of the internet, at microcinemas and DIY spaces throughout the US and Europe. D E E P is presented in partnership with LA-based production company MEMORY. In 2019, Osborn was invited to International Film Festival Rotterdam as a guest programmer, curating a special slate of films about memes and other moving images on social media. They also served on the Shorts Jury for Sheffield Doc/Fest later that year. Osborn's writing has been published in The New York Times, Vice, and Talkhouse, and received honors from Sundance Institute, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and ScreenCraft.