Chris Filippone is a documentary filmmaker whose works explore physical labor, survival economies, peripheral perspectives, and liminal spaces through aesthetically immersive approaches. His films have screened in Berlinale, Visions du Réel, SXSW, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Sheffield Doc/Fest, as well as The New York Times Op-Docs, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Short of the Week, and Vimeo Staff Picks.
His film Huntsville Station was nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Short at the Cinema Eye Honors, Best Short Nominee at the IDA Documentary Awards, and qualified for Academy Awards consideration. He has also received support from Catapult Film Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, AmDoc, Mountainfilm, and Bread and Roses; artist residencies at KHN Art Center and Marble House Project; as well as fellowships from the Telluride Student Symposium and UFVA.
Chris is a graduate of Stanford University’s M.F.A. Documentary Film program and has previously taught at San Francisco Art Institute, Santa Clara University, and The University of Iowa.