Chris Gibbon
Type of Work Seeking:
Development Opportunities (Including Open Writing Assignments)
Personal Highlights:
2020 Humanitas New Voices Fellow.
Two-time semi-finalist, Hollywood Climate Summit Pitchfest, 2022, 2023.
Feature development experience with award-winning independent house 3311 Productions.
2nd round, Austin Screenwriting Competition, 2019.
Top 15%, Nicholl, 2017.
Adjunct Lecturer, Advanced Screenwriting, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Walk-on speaking role, LOST, Episode 405, “The Constant”, 2008.
Representation:
Chris is seeking representation.
Learn More about Chris:
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To date, Chris has written seven spec feature projects. Throughout his work he consistently explores themes of existentialism. He writes characters dealing with threats to their core identities, and the question of what roles they are supposed to play in life. Often this takes the form of characters struggling with the death of their idealism. He creates rich, high concept worlds with an atmospheric, and darker, yet reflective tone, tending to avoid easy answers. While he has moved between genres in his work, Chris has most recently been focused on science fiction and horror. Above all he is passionate about cinematic movies that entertain, through which he wants to continue telling stories that also challenge an audience to dwell in the complexity and emotional weight of modern life, but that ultimately leave them feeling a sense of hope and possibility.
Originally from the U.K. Chris holds dual citizenship, and is fortunate enough to now call Hawai‘i home, where he tries to surf whenever the waves are good. -
THE CURSE OF THE BASKERVILLES - (Gothic Horror/Feature)
The Hound of the Baskervilles – a classic of gothic horror, and Sherlock Holmes's greatest adventure…except he never apprehended his suspect, and never knew that his files were, in fact, incomplete. THE CURSE OF THE BASKERVILLES is the missing chapters, the untold story of the villain's wife, Beryl Stapleton – accessory to a murder as well as a victim of her husband’s tyranny, and the only one capable of breaking a curse that might just have been real all along.
THE LŌKAHI STRAIN - (Sci-fi Horror/Feature)
When the experimental pesticides of a corporate seed company create a horrific new strain of parasite that infects her workers, the disillusioned manager of a remote organic farm in Hawai‘i must rekindle her belief in humanity in order to try and protect her sister, and save the island from mass contamination.
BREAKWATER - (Romantic Drama/Feature)
The casual relationship between a local guy and a new-to-Hawai‘i woman takes an intense and radical turn as they test the limits and definitions of intimacy.
L.A. SPECTRUM - (Neo-noir Mystery/Feature)
After being contacted by a corporate whistleblower, an unseasoned reporter descends into an underworld of crime and politics, where he must risk everything to expose the truth, including the reputation of his own newspaper, which the matriarch owner will stop at nothing to protect.
SINGULARITY - (Sci-fi/Feature)
Attempting to unravel the human mind and its secrets using cutting-edge technology, an introverted neuroscientist makes an incredible discovery, and risks her career and life in using it to try and win back her only love.