Chris Tripoulas

Chris Tripoulas began making movies as an undergraduate at Oberlin College, Ohio. His karate film 'The Duel', shot on Super-8 mm, earned enough praise from his professor and peers that upon graduating, he purchased a windup 16 mm Bolex camera. He wrote, produced and directed 'The End of Autumn'. It is a short film about a high school football player who commits suicide rather than face life in a wheelchair due to an injury on the gridiron. It was this film that led Chris to enroll in Columbia University's School of the Arts after having spent a year in Los Angeles studying acting at U.C.L.A. Chris was mentored in screenwriting and directing by Academy Award winning director Milos Forman and by the creative director of Sundance, Frank Daniel (who chaired the department before establishing the same program at U. S.C.). Chris' thesis script 'In the Year of the Horse' is during the Vietnam War in 1966 and uses the Custer legacy as a metaphor. Chris has produced and directed over twenty films that have generated both monetary and non-monetary profits. 'Pactor' reduced the number of workers' compensation claims for the City of New York and 'Harmony and Hard Work', where he cast R&B and hip-hop artists, increased enrollment in vocational education programs for underprivileged youth citywide. The documentary 'Keeping the City Moving' was broadcast globally. 'Saving the Williamsburg Bridge' is part of the acclaimed PBS series 'Stories of New York'. HBO aired 'Death Dealers' about an elite unit of the NYPD that deciphers gang graffiti in order to prevent and solve crimes.