Emmy Award winning filmmaker Kris Wilson is a former NFL tight end, native to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Drafted in the second round (61st overall) of the 2004 NFL Draft, Wilson played a total of eight seasons of pro football. After playing four years with the Kansas City Chiefs, he went on to win two divisional championships with the San Diego Chargers within three years, and one divisional championship in his final year of professional play with the Baltimore Ravens.

In 2012, Wilson retired and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment by enrolling in the UCLA School of Law. Upon earning his Juris Doctorate with a specialization in sports and entertainment, Wilson passed the California State Bar Exam but declined to practice as an attorney, instead opting to start his own film company while learning how to direct film productions at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

While enrolled at UCLA TFT, Wilson's first student film, Mid City Blue, was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 2018, and won competitions at several other film festivals, including HBO Best Short Film at Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival. Before earning his Master of Fine Arts from UCLA in 2019, Wilson served as executive producer on the NFL Network docuseries Indivisible for its first season.

Kris Wilson is currently entering the festival circuit with his narrative thesis film, Smell of Summer, while serving as a freelance producer and director for several television shows and commercials produced at NFL Films, such as HBO's Hard Knocks and Showtime's Inside the NFL. Most recently, Wilson earned an Emmy Award at the 41st Annual Sports Emmy Awards for his role as producer on 100 Greatest in the category of Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage. Kris splits time between the Philadelphia and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.