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WindBlown Films

WindBlown Films, was created in 1998 as a low-budget, direct-to-video Production Company with a “Big Budget” look for feature films.  Co-Owned by Christopher and Tiffany Abram, the WindBlown Films philosophy is to create the best product possible.




 

 

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Tiffany Abram
Executive Producer/Assistant Editor/Location Scout and Manager
Tiffany has taken on three feature films as Executive Producer/Assistant Editor/Location Scout and Production Manager.  Her background includes Bachelors in Science and she has quickly adapted to any situation that a production can undertake.  Bringing sponsors on board with each production brings awareness to the community about WindBlown Films productions but also advertising to some of the smaller businesses that lend a hand with each production.  Not only does she find all the sponsor’s for WindBlown Films, but she is also crucial in location scouting and managing those locations.  Although she is shy in front of the camera, she has played a few minor speaking roles in several WindBlown Films movies. 








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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.