Biographie
Christopher (mink) Wingfield Morrison is a British American film director, writer, producer and comic book novelist. In 2002 Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Films added him to their roster as a director. Christopher "mink" Morrison was born in London and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. His father Gregory Morrison was a movie studio executive. His mother was an actress in the UK. Christopher attended photography college at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. His 16mm graduate film about legendary guitar maker Danny Ferrington placed regionally in the Student Academy Awards. Morrison's first job in the industry post-graduation was as a production assistant for Edward S. Feldman at the Walt Disney Studios, where eventually he earned entry-level camera department positions on movie sets. After a few feature films he moved to the fledgling camera division of Sony Pictures Imageworks. In the summer of 1997 he self-financed wrote, produced and directed the feature film Bus with best friend from college. The film was shot entirely on borrowed equipment on a Santa Monica City Bus in the streets of Los Angeles. The film won awards at Houston Film Festival and got Christopher some local attention with film producers and agents. In 1998 at the encouragement of one his producers he started work in the commercial/music video business working with acts like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Busta Rhymes, TLC, No Doubt, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Puffy, Nas, Beyoncé, A Tribe called Quest, Will Smith as well as commercials for Coca-Cola, Gap, Nike, Reebok and many more. This visual work led to him to directing many music videos for artists like Sheryl Crowe, Snoop Dogg, Master P, Raphael Saadiq, Daniel Bedingfield, South Central Cartel, Slum Village and Veruca Salt. In 2000 he was added to the director roster at Bille Woodruff's production company Geneva Films. In 2002, Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart films picked him to join their director roster after seeing his work. Morrison then moved from videos to feature films directing the Lionsgate action comedy Full Clip in 2003 which was released in 2006. In 2005 he directed the Sony Pictures adventure thriller Into the Sun in Tokyo and Bangkok. In 2007-2008 he was attached and developed the remake of Mortal Kombat III with Larry Kasanoff producing through Threshold Entertainment and New Line Cinema. Do to finances the movie never happened. In 2009 Morrison wrote and developed a feature version of Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden with Constantine/Impact pictures. Morrison also has written a number of creator-owned graphic novels for Image Comics, IDW Comics and Dark Horse Comics, including Dust , Dust Wars, 13 Chambers & Shinjuku with artist Yoshitaka Amano all of which have been optioned and or developed into film and television. In 2009, he started his own company Twistory Entertainment with a family friend, the company was based on his vision of creative stories. Twistory Entertainment from 2009-2014 developed and released multiple mobile video games, a fusion art magazine and a story that was developed into a video game driven game show. In early 2015 he left Twistory Entertainment as the company under new leadership renamed it and completely changed the core creative to create and distribute STEM based Educational toys and web cartoons for young children. Since 2015 Christopher has been writing and directing new material for Film, Television & print.
