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Director

Chris Elston

Bio

Chris' career as an industry hyphenate started in college with the lead role in the play Doors for the 1995 Drama Showcase. He returned to the Drama Showcase the following year with a one-act play he wrote, produced and directed called "The Art of Love" and won the Best In Show award. His college experience also included significant involvement in video and radio work, including producing, directing, writing and hosting various radio and television programs. Since then, Chris has written approximately two dozen feature film and television screenplays and has been invited to participate in screenwriting events for festivals in Seattle and Los Angeles. His short films have played at festivals all over the country, including New York and Los Angeles, and on cable television in 166 countries. Since January of 2004, Chris has been working as a writer, director, actor, camera operator, editor and producer on various film and television projects in Los Angeles involving networks such as ESPN, HGTV, Lifetime, Wealth TV, and Fox Sports Net.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.