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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''. He also teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre various courses including Film Production, Producing, and two popular online classes: Great Comedy Films and Alfred Hitchcock, ince 2003. ==Background== LaMont graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University, and while there he won an Emmy Award for Student Production for the local 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''. His film ''My Apocalypse'' is an avant-garde dark comedy/drama which had its world premier at the 2008 Boston Underground Film Festival. It has also screened as an Official Selection at the Sydney Underground Film Festival, Strasbourg (France) International Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, and the River's Edge Independent Film Festival during 2008. In 2009 he produced the film ''The Graves'' for first-time feature filmmaker, writer-director Brian Pulido, with the Ronalds Brothers. Starring Claire Grant, Jillian Murray, Bill Mosely and Tony Todd, the supernatural suspense genre film follows two sisters who are captured in an old ghost town controlled by a religious zealot and his brainwashed clan. The film was released in 2010 by AfterDark Films as one of the "Horrorfest 2010: Eight Films To Die For". It is available on DVD and Netflix and ran on the SyFy channel. In 2014, he produced the independent suspense-thriller Justice Served, with writer-director Marvin Young, starring Chase Coleman, Lochlyn Munro, Gail O' Grady and Lance Henriksen and in 2015 has two features on his slate for production during the Summer. In Since 2010, he is a regular contributor to the local NBC affiliate, KPNX-TV, with film and television commentary on the morning news program "12 News Today." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris LaMont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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