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Chris Fuller | |
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Born | Christopher Elwin Fuller October 8, 1982 [1] St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. [2] |
Occupation | Filmmaker |
Years active | 2006–present |
Christopher Elwin Fuller is an American film director, writer, and producer.
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Fuller was born in St. Petersburg, Florida graduated from the Canterbury School of Florida in 2001 and attended the University of Central Florida from 2001 to 2004. [3] [4]
Fuller holds a black belt in taekwondo under Master Yong Jun Lee and trained in St. Petersburg, Florida under tang soo do master Michael Kinney and mixed martial artist Shane Dunn. [5] [6]
In 2006, he released Loren Cass , which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in under the name Lewis Brogan. [7] The film is set against the backdrop of the St. Petersburg, Florida riots of 1996. [8] Fuller wrote the film at the age of 15 [9] and filmed it in 2004 at the age of 21. [10] The movie was released theatrically and on DVD in 2009 by Kino International. [11] The film played in competition at Dennis Hopper's CineVegas Film Festival, [12] the Filmmakers of the Present section of the Locarno International Film Festival [13] and the Museum of Modern Art. [14]
In 2023, ESPN announced that Fuller is directing and producing Gracie, a multi-part documentary series on the Gracie family, founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the UFC, with Greg O'Connor, Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Nanette Burstein executive producing. [15] [16]
Fuller was nominated for an IFP Gotham Award, [17] a Locarno Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present, the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Starz Denver Film Festival [18] and won the One+One Award for use of music in a feature film at Janine Bazin's Entrevues Belfort film festival in France. [19]
Fuller was profiled as one of 100 new directors representing the future of film in Take 100: The Future of Film, 100 New Directors, a book published by Phaidon Press and curated by film festival programmers from around the world. [20]
Year | Title | Credited | ||||||
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Directed | Written | Produced | Edited | Acted | ||||
2006 | Loren Cass | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
2025 | Gracie | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — |