Biography

Chris LaMont is an independent filmmaker who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University. His most notable work is as a screenwriter with his partner Joe Russo on produced projects as "The Last Will & Testament of Charles Abernathy", "Hard Kill" "The Au Pair Nightmare". He is a member of the Writer's Guild of America. They are three-Time BloodList Winners, appeared on The Hit List, and were named as 101 Top New Screenwriters in Holllywood,

He has been a writer, director and producer on such low-budget projects as TV or Not TV, The Best Movie Ever Made, Writer's Block, Film Club, 14 Days in America, Netherbeast Incorporated, Screen Wars, My Apocalypse, The Graves, Justice Served, and Postmarked.

In 2000, he started the Phoenix Film Festival, the non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation, Phoenix Film Society, IFP - Phoenix and co-founded the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, the Arizona Student Film Festival and The Arizona College Film Festival.

He has also taught at Arizona State University since 2004, produced hundreds of marketing, educational and promotional projects, and wrote the comprehensive study of American Comedy Film in 2017 "Great Comedy Films: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Funny Movies" available through Amazon and Kendall Hunt Publishing.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chris LaMont

Born in Edison, New Jersey - the birthplace of American Motion Pictures by Thomas Edison

"Film is a Verb." (in relation to the use of digital filmmaking instead of 35mm)