chris@runriotfilms.com | 202.330.1247
RUN RIOT FILMS | Co-Founder, Executive Producer, Lead Editor 2010 - Present
Co-founder of creative media company Run Riot Films, focused on telling authentic, character-driven stories with a cinematic aesthetic. Executive produced and/or edited hundreds of hours of content including feature documentaries The Wrong Light and Storm The Gates; digital documentaries for Huffington Post, Smithsonian Channel and National Geographic; branded content for IBM, Samsung, Delta, New Balance, and NPR; and social-impact videos for non-profits NY Food Bank, DC Central Kitchen, Harbers Foundation and Blue Engine. Run Riot content has reached mass audiences online, on TV and in movie theaters, been Staff Picked on Vimeo, received "Best Of" awards at festivals and been written up in the NY Times.
EDITOR | Commercial and Documentary Film 2006 - Present
Broadcast Credits
National Geographic Explorer: Lake of Fire
National Geographic Explorer: The Last Tepui
National Geographic Explorer: COVID Special - Virus Hunters
Huffington Post: Storm The Gates (feature) (Showrunner/Executive Producer) *Best Documentary, Crested Butte FF
EPIX: Amare Stoudemire - In The Moment
National Geographic Explorer: Inside Bio-Terrorism
National Geographic Explorer: Inside the Nuclear Threat
National Geographic Explorer: Easter Island Underworld
National Geographic Explorer: Peru’s Mass Grave
National Geographic Special: Darwin’s Secret Notebooks
National Geographic: Animal Underworld - Wild Hunger featuring Henry Rollins
National Geographic: Animal Underworld - Fatal Obsession featuring Henry Rollins
National Geographic: Snake Underworld featuring Henry Rollins
National Geographic: Killer Shots - Polar Bears
National Geographic: Killer Shots - Serengeti
National Geographic: Killer Shots - Shark Ambush
National Geographic: Hooked - Hunt for the Monster Fish
National Geographic: Hunter and Hunted - Arctic Attack
National Geographic: Hunter and Hunted - Cougar Island
National Geographic: Hunter and Hunted - Danger in the Delta
Discovery: Planet Earth Extremes – Predator to Prey
TLC: Hoarding: Buried Alive - Seasons 1, 2 & 3
TLC: Into the Pride – A Tale of Two Alphas
TLC: Into the Pride – Homeward Bound
Sundance: War Dance Returns
Planet Green: Total Wrecklamation
Discovery: Some Assembly Required
Discovery: Tattoo Hunter: Ethiopia
Documentary Credits
The Wrong Light (feature)
National Geographic: Joel Sartore - Road to the Ark (short) *Audience Award, EarthX FF
Human Nature – (feature film trailer)
DCDC (short) (Director/Editor) *Vimeo Staff Pick
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Empowering Bioacoustics Research in Southeast Asia (short)
DC Central Kitchen: Marianne’s Story (short)
DC Central Kitchen: Healthy Corners (short)
DC Central Kitchen: Bringing School Food Home (short)
Harbers Foundation: Sumbandila (short)
Harbers Foundation: Gideon Mendel (short)
Blue Engine: Learning Reimagined (short)
Commercial/Branded Content Credits
Amazon: Deliveries Around the World (4 x mini-documentary series)
Amazon: North Pole (:60)
Delta/Seattle Sounders FC: Nonstop Scouting (3 x mini-documentary series)
L’Oreal: For Women in Science (20 x mini-documentary series)
AARP / LOWES (14 x branded videos)
Out of Eden Walk: National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek (promo)
New Balance: All Roads (:60 & :30)
NPR: Tiny Desk Contest (:30)
Microsoft: More Human (promo)
IBM: Solutions for a Smarter Planet – Workstrong (mini-documentary)
Dusty Hernandez: Voices (:90)
Huffington Post: Talk To Me (7 x mini-documentary series)
Huffington Post: Pioneers (11 x mini-documentary series)
Ogilvy/BP: Restoration Gulf Coast (5 x mini-documentary series)
Ogilvy/BP: Life in Alaska (2 x mini-documentary series)
AOL: Shingerviews (4 x mini-documentary series)
Food Bank for New York City (mini-documentary)
Intel: Matthew Curry Profile (mini-documentary & :30) AOL/Huffington Post (promo)
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Adding Tomorrows (mini-documentary) AOL: Makers (promo & :30)
Visible Men (mini-documentary)
About.com (2 x promo)
Christies: Kippenberger (mini-documentary)
Hitachi (5 x mini-documentary series)
Music Video Credits
The Soundmen: My Friends
Hey Monea!: Adeline
Matthew Hemerlein: Luminescent Braid
Matthew Hemerlein: 5000 Miles
Chris Kasper: Raven and the Rose
Kick Kick Snare: SXSW Live Sessions (24 x live music videos)