Christopher Abram
Writer/Director/Editor/Executive Producer/Actor
Christopher Abram has directed
three feature films to date. 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. His greatest achievement to this date is the marriage to his wife, Tiffany in 1998,
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 restless 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, 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 only 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 places to go". 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 again 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 "After
Sundown”. After many meetings and ideas Christopher 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 fell through, cast members got injured (not on the
set) 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 his third feature film. 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 Operations 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.