Chris Emmanouilides continues to make short films after a career as a television production company executive, series executive producer and creative team manager of award winning documentaries and reality-based series for numerous cable networks.
He directed, produced, wrote, photographed and edited Archive (2013) which premiered at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Orpheus Prize. His early films include Remains (1993) and A Border Crossing (1988), and his 1989 film Suelto! about running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990.
He co-produced and photographed The Ad and the Ego, (1994) a critical look at the impact of advertising on culture and the environment that took first prize in its category at the San Francisco International Film Festival and was distributed by California Newsreel. Chris was Co-Producer and Director of Photography on Talk Fast, a feature-length documentary that follows a group of struggling screenwriters in Hollywood. Talk Fast was distributed internationally by Solid Entertainment and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
He is currently Senior Digital Media Producer at the American College of Financial Services in King of Prussia, PA. He received his BA in Philosophy from Colorado College and his MFA in Radio-Television-Film from Temple University and resides with his wife and daughter in Rutledge, PA.