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Chris LaMont
Chris LaMont is an American screenwriter, independent filmmaker, and film professor, who co-founded the Phoenix Film Festival in 2000. He has written and co-written several feature films, including Soul Mates, The Inheritance, The Au Pair Nightmare, The Locksmith, and Hard Kill. He has also produced and directed several independent films, My Apocalypse, Netherbeast Incorporated, and The Graves.
Born in Edison, New Jersey and growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, LaMont graduated from Arizona State University. While there, he won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for Student Entertainment Production for the sketch comedy series, TV or Not TV. He directed his first feature with Steve Bencich, The Best Movie Ever Made featuring Adam West. His next feature is the horror film, Writer's Block, was released to video stores.
In 2000, LaMont directed and co-wrote Film Club, a short film parody of David Fincher's Fight Club. Later, he directed the documentary feature 14 Days in America, and in 2006 he produced with Brian and Dean Ronalds the office-vampire comedy Netherbeast Incorporated, which was released in North America in January 2009 by Illuminata Films.
In 2008, he produced the animated logos for "R&D TV" that appear on the end of the Season 4 episodes of SyFy Channel's Battlestar Galactica. His film My Apocalypse was a dark comedy/drama, which had its world premiere at the 2008 Boston Underground Film Festival.
In 2009 he produced the film The Graves for first-time feature filmmaker, writer-director Brian Pulido, with the Ronalds Brothers. The supernatural suspense film follows two sisters who are captured in an old ghost town controlled by a religious zealot and his brainwashed clan. The film was released in 2010 by AfterDark Films as one of the "Horrorfest 2010: Eight Films To Die For".
In 2014, he produced the independent suspense-thriller Justice Served, with writer-director Marvin Young, starring Chase Coleman, Lochlyn Munro, Gail O'Grady and Lance Henriksen. In 2015 he produced the micro-budget feature Postmarked for writer-director Gene Ganssle.
In 2015, he started to focus on screenplay writing. He and his writing partner Joseph Russo were named to the 2016 Young and Hungry List.[citation needed] Their feature screenplay "Road Rage" was a Tpe 10 horror/suspense finalist in the annual Final Draft Big Break Contest. Their screenplay, "Soul Mates", was named to Hollywood's annual Blood List as one of the Top 13 unproduced genre films in Hollywood and to The Hit List as one of the Top Unproduced Screenplays in Hollywood. Their horror action film "The Red Pill" was named to the 2017 Blood List and their horror screenplay "The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernathy" was named on the 2018 Blood List.
2019 saw their script "The Au Pair Nightmare" filmed in New Mexico with writing partner Joseph Russo directing. The film premiered on the Lifetime Network in 2020. It was later available on the streaming Lifetime Movie Channel.
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Chris LaMont
Chris LaMont is an American screenwriter, independent filmmaker, and film professor, who co-founded the Phoenix Film Festival in 2000. He has written and co-written several feature films, including Soul Mates, The Inheritance, The Au Pair Nightmare, The Locksmith, and Hard Kill. He has also produced and directed several independent films, My Apocalypse, Netherbeast Incorporated, and The Graves.
Born in Edison, New Jersey and growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, LaMont graduated from Arizona State University. While there, he won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for Student Entertainment Production for the sketch comedy series, TV or Not TV. He directed his first feature with Steve Bencich, The Best Movie Ever Made featuring Adam West. His next feature is the horror film, Writer's Block, was released to video stores.
In 2000, LaMont directed and co-wrote Film Club, a short film parody of David Fincher's Fight Club. Later, he directed the documentary feature 14 Days in America, and in 2006 he produced with Brian and Dean Ronalds the office-vampire comedy Netherbeast Incorporated, which was released in North America in January 2009 by Illuminata Films.
In 2008, he produced the animated logos for "R&D TV" that appear on the end of the Season 4 episodes of SyFy Channel's Battlestar Galactica. His film My Apocalypse was a dark comedy/drama, which had its world premiere at the 2008 Boston Underground Film Festival.
In 2009 he produced the film The Graves for first-time feature filmmaker, writer-director Brian Pulido, with the Ronalds Brothers. The supernatural suspense film follows two sisters who are captured in an old ghost town controlled by a religious zealot and his brainwashed clan. The film was released in 2010 by AfterDark Films as one of the "Horrorfest 2010: Eight Films To Die For".
In 2014, he produced the independent suspense-thriller Justice Served, with writer-director Marvin Young, starring Chase Coleman, Lochlyn Munro, Gail O'Grady and Lance Henriksen. In 2015 he produced the micro-budget feature Postmarked for writer-director Gene Ganssle.
In 2015, he started to focus on screenplay writing. He and his writing partner Joseph Russo were named to the 2016 Young and Hungry List.[citation needed] Their feature screenplay "Road Rage" was a Tpe 10 horror/suspense finalist in the annual Final Draft Big Break Contest. Their screenplay, "Soul Mates", was named to Hollywood's annual Blood List as one of the Top 13 unproduced genre films in Hollywood and to The Hit List as one of the Top Unproduced Screenplays in Hollywood. Their horror action film "The Red Pill" was named to the 2017 Blood List and their horror screenplay "The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernathy" was named on the 2018 Blood List.
2019 saw their script "The Au Pair Nightmare" filmed in New Mexico with writing partner Joseph Russo directing. The film premiered on the Lifetime Network in 2020. It was later available on the streaming Lifetime Movie Channel.