Christopher Abram
Writer/Director/Editor/Executive Producer/Actor
“By the Devil’s Hands” is the third feature film by Christopher Abram. His first feature film was released in
2002, “The Fanglys”, distributed by Asylum Home Video.
In 2006 “After Sundown”, winner of the Deep Ellum Film Festival Audience Award was
released through Lion’s Gate Distribution. Both previous movies have made a big impact in Domestic and International
markets.
Christopher’s background includes Stage and Theatre management as well
as Regional and National Commercial work, Industrials, Music Videos and Press Pool videographer for President George W. Bush.
Graduating with an Applied Sciences degree and not wanting to be left out of the fun, Christopher also has
a small amount of screen time in each movie he directs performing under the pseudonym of J Christopher. From a Cannibal Hillbilly to a Vampire, he fits in nicely. His greatest achievement to
this date is the marriage to his wife, Tiffany, and the birth of their three sons, Simon, Jared and Titus.
Christopher began his career with writing, directing and editing short films, TV pilot episodes
and commercials. After numerous endeavors, he began to grow frustrated with all the work that was going into producing
work for others. Deciding to just step out and make a feature length film, his good friend, Chris Lunardon jumped in
to lend a hand… and money. Christopher then sat down and wrote a script that could be shot with little to no
money. Since he owned all the equipment needed to support the production and had his own editing system the only thing
he needed was locations, a crew and the cast. Not going to be stopped from achieving his dream, Christopher enlisted
the aid from some of his friends, made some calls and before he knew it the movie was “A GO”.
As shooting began on “The Fanglys”, Christopher realized quickly that keeping a cast and crew together for the entire shooting
schedule was going to be tricky. On top of that, everyone working on the movie was being paid on a deferred pay scale
and the shooting would have to fit within everyone’s schedule which meant shooting on weekends. The production
got off to a slow start because of inclement weather, scheduling issues, hospitalization, weddings, divorces, babies being
born and family members dying but over an 18 month period the movie was shot and somehow was able to keep almost every member
of the cast and crew together. Those that left moved out of the area so it wasn’t like they abandoned the movie,
they just "had lives". 6 months after principle photography was wrapped the movie was edited and off to distributors.
Because this was Christopher’s first movie he didn’t expect the best distribution deal but the movie did get distributed.
A few months after “The Fanglys” was released, Christopher began to grow restless and headed back into the writer’s room
and penned several new scripts. Not sure which direction he wanted to head in for his next movie he teamed up with another
old friend, Keith Duncan (ThinkTank Entertainment), and the two of them went through the different ideas Christopher had and decided to go with the vampire
story "After Sundown”. After many meetings and ideas Christopher added zombies and cowboys to the script and
a week later presented a final script to Keith. With Keith Duncan’s producing background he quickly began to breakdown
the script and talking to investors. Christopher’s second movie was now underway. With a 20 day shooting
schedule laid out with 5 extra days for re-shoots and pickup shots the movie moved at a break neck speed until the bad Texas
weather hit, locations backed out, cast members got injured and scheduling conflicts arose. Regardless of all the issues,
the production kept moving and the movie finally was finally done. While the movie was still in its early editing stages
of post-production, distribution companies came knocking and a distribution deal was signed before the movie was even finished
and 6 months later hit the shelves through Lion’s Gate distribution.
With every movie it takes a lot out of a person and Christopher is no exception.
Taking almost a year off once “After Sundown” had hit the shelves, he went back into his cave and began writing “By the Devil’s Hands”. The script had various drafts with evolving storylines but what this movie has that the
others didn’t was the thriller factor. Knowing that this movie would be crucial to keeping WindBlown Films on
track for their production goals, Christopher brought back Chris Lunardon to once again be Director of Photography and new
comer to the WindBlown Films family, Cody Dulock. Cody would be vital in Second Unit Directing, Camera Op and Effects
Design and Editing. Also coming back to work under Christopher’s direction would be Susana Gibb and Reece Rios,
both from “After Sundown”. Susana Gibb also took on added responsibility with Producer duties.