DIRECTOR:

Chris Osborn

SYNOPSIS

As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods.  Twenty years later, they're still searching.

DIRECTOR BIO

Chris Osborn is a director and editor based in New York.

GUSSY, Osborn’s most recent short, is an experimental queer horror film about boyhood and monsters. It premiered as one of eleven American short films presented at Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, before continuing onto Fantasia for its North American premiere, and a global festival run throughout 2022.

Osborn is currently developing their debut feature, a Midwestern crime thriller titled IN THE JACKPOT, which was selected for the inaugural Sundance Producers Intensive, as well as The Gotham Week Project Forum in 2022.

In 2019, Osborn was invited to International Film Festival Rotterdam as a guest programmer, curating a special slate of films about memes and other moving images on social media. They also served on the Shorts Jury for Sheffield Doc/Fest later that year.

Osborn’s writing has been published in  The New York Times, Vice,  and Talkhouse, and received honors from Sundance Institute, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and ScreenCraft.

They were born and raised in Portland, Oregon.