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Chris Metzler

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After graduating from USC with a degree in business and cinema, Chris Metzler's film career has taken him from the depths of agency work, to coordinating post-production for awful American movies seen late at night in Belgium. His filmmaking work has resulted in him criss-crossing the country with the aid of caffeinated beverages, all the while making his way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking his soul to commercial LA rock n' roll. These misadventures culminated in him winning a Billboard Magazine Music Video Award.

He eventually joined the independent documentary film scene and started work on his feature length directorial debut - the offbeat environmental documentary, "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea", which was narrated by legendary counterculture filmmaker and "King of Trash" John Waters. The film went on to win over 37 awards for Best Documentary and was named by Booklist as one its Top 10 Environmental Films. A cult favorite, the film was released theatrically in the United States and broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel and public television's America ReFramed.

With the success of that film, he has gone on to pursue other sub-cultural documentary subjects, including: rogue economists, lucha libre wrestlers, ganja-preneurs, and evangelical Christian surfers. Additional feature documentaries include the Emmy nominated documentary "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" about the legendary Black ska-punk band which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, screened at SXSW, and aired nationally on PBS and Starz. And the ITVS co-production "Rodents of Unusual Size" about the giant swamp rat invasion of Louisiana which aired on PBS' Independent Lens.

He also frequently serves as a producer/director for a wide variety of documentary, commercial, corporate, and music video projects, including directing numerous documentaries for KCET's Artbound, including the Emmy nominated hour long doc "The State of Creativity" and "Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic".

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Filmography

Producer

13

Type

Year

Jack Has a Plan Poster

Jack Has a Plan Feature Film2022

Moss Man Poster

Moss Man Short Film2018

Coming Out: A 50 Year History Poster

Coming Out: A 50 Year History Documentary2017

Nat Bates for Mayor Poster

Nat Bates for Mayor Documentary2017

Rodents of Unusual Size Poster

Rodents of Unusual Size Documentary2017

First Friday Poster

First Friday Documentary2014

Artbound Poster

Artbound TV Series2012

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Poster

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Documentary2010

500 Miles to Babylon Documentary2007

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Poster

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Short Film2004

Natural Heroes Poster

Natural Heroes TV Series2004

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Poster

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Documentary2004

HDNet World Report Poster

HDNet World Report TV Series2002

Director

9

Type

Year

Moss Man Poster

Moss Man Short Film2018

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists Poster

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists Documentary2018

Rodents of Unusual Size Poster

Rodents of Unusual Size Documentary2017

Artbound Poster

Artbound TV Series2012

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Poster

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Documentary2010

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Poster

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Short Film2004

Natural Heroes Poster

Natural Heroes TV Series2004

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Poster

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Documentary2004

HDNet World Report Poster

HDNet World Report TV Series2002

Thanks

6

Type

Year

All the Empty Rooms Poster

All the Empty Rooms Short Film2025

Sunshine Superman Poster

Sunshine Superman Documentary2014

Forgotten Planet Poster

Forgotten Planet TV Series2011

Do It Again Poster

Do It Again Documentary2010

Independent Lens Poster

Independent Lens TV Series1999

P.O.V. TV Series1988

Cinematographer

3

Type

Year

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Poster

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Short Film2004

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Poster

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Documentary2004

HDNet World Report Poster

HDNet World Report TV Series2002

Writer

4

Type

Year

Keep the Promise: The Global Fight Against AIDS Poster

Keep the Promise: The Global Fight Against AIDS Short Film2013

Artbound Poster

Artbound TV Series2012

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Poster

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Documentary2010

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Poster

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Documentary2004

Camera and Electrical Department

2

Type

Year

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Poster

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Documentary2010

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Poster

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations TV Series2005

Editor

2

Type

Year

500 Miles to Babylon Documentary2007

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Poster

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Short Film2004

Editorial Department

1

Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Flik's Musical Adventure Poster

Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Flik's Musical Adventure Video1999

Sound Department

1

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Poster

Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy Short Film2004

Other Crew

1

To Be Takei Poster

To Be Takei Documentary2014

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