Biography

In 17 years in the film business, Christopher Bates has traveled the world to shoot over 25 studio and independent feature films on location in the USA, Europe & Asia. Chris has experience from development through post-production, including co-founding management of a digital media services company in Los Angeles.

As Line Producer in China, Chris most recently prepped "Man of Tai Chi" being directed by Keanu Reeves in Winter/Spring 2012; and completed the feature film "Man with the Iron Fists" for Universal Pictures, directed by RZA from WuTang Clan. Iron Fists was produced by Marc Abraham, Quentin Tarantino & Eli Roth, and stars Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, RZA, Cung Le & Dave Bautista among many others. Iron Fists will be released worldwide in late 2012.

Additionally, the team at Maxmedia has be involved in production, acquisition and distribution of films from all over the world including "The Others", "Vanilla Sky", "Sea Inside", "Abre Los Ojos", "Sky Blue", "Emperor and the Assassin" among many others. In the early days, Chris started worked for Filmwerks and Director Albert Pyun, making Action Movies fast and furious in locations all over the world.

From 2003-2007, Chris was part of the co-founding management of "MESoft", a Media Services company that specialized in securely transferring media worldwide for Hollywood Studios and Production Entities. The company was purchased by venture capital company Sid Bass Associates in 2007.
- IMDb mini biography by: cbfilm