Chris Osborn

Chris Osborn is a director and producer based in Brooklyn. His work has been shown at film festivals around the world, and prominently featured on YouTube, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Nylon, and The AV Club. He has directed music videos for high profile indie bands Tennis, MS MR, Holiday Shores, and Candy Claws, with cinematographer Ava Benjamin under the shared alias, Lilliput.His sci-fi short, Sisters, screened at prominent festivals across the US, including Denver, Dallas, and Maryland. Filmmaker Magazine called it "a study in abstract horror and mental illness... [that] earns its high-strung pathos." It was featured on io9 and Digg and earned a Vimeo Staff Pick.True Blue, his most recent Atlantic City-set short, premiered at Maryland Film Festival in 2017, and won the Audience Award at Indie Memphis Film Festival later that year.Beyond his directorial work, Osborn co-produced Lace Crater, Harrison Atkins' feature debut, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically in July 2016. He has also produced films that have played Slamdance, Sidewalk, and CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. As an editor, he has worked with director Zia Anger on music videos for Beach House and Zola Jesus, the latter of which was selected as a top video of 2017 by many major music publications, including Pitchfork.Both the Sundance Institute and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have recognized Osborn's writing, as a semifinalist for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, respectively.He previously worked at Vimeo, where he curated experimental and avant-garde work. Each month, he hosts D E E P, a monthly IRL showcase of the weirdest shorts unearthed from the dark parts of the internet.He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has been making films since he was ten years old. Hide

Chris Osborn's FILMOGRAPHY

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Lace Crater