Biografia
Academy-Award winning film editor Chris Innis, ACE, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in film studies, and received an MFA in live action filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the creative arts school founded by Walt Disney. Innis won the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (ACE), and International Press Academy's Golden Satellite awards for "Best Film Editing" for "The Hurt Locker," shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski, ACE. Chris Innis has served as an associate board member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Like director Joel Coen, Innis hails from the cutting rooms of director Sam Raimi, among other filmmakers. Some of Innis' editing credits include Sam Raimi's cult TV show "American Gothic," Raimi's "The Gift" and "Spider-man" (Music editor: temp score), as well as Ridley Scott's Navy Seals film "G.I.Jane" (Associate Editor). She worked her way up alongside film editors, Pietro Scalia ACE and Joe Hutshing ACE, both of whom she started assisted on the Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone film, "JFK."
Innis is also a writer-filmmaker who has been a semi-finalist in the Academy of Arts and Sciences Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project Screenwriting Competition. Her short films have screened at several major film festivals and she has written, directed and produced karaoke videos for Pioneer Electronics, as well as edited music videos including the first directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley Scott), and for artists such as Ice Cube, Onyx and DMX. She has also produced for distributor Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, including the recent digital restorations on Blu-ray/DVD of classic films including 1966's "The Big Gundown" and the 1968 film, "The Swimmer." She wrote, directed, produced and edited "The Story of the Swimmer" a five-part, 2-1/2 hour documentary on the making of "The Swimmer." Innis is a fellow and current member of the Ryan Murphy Television Directing Mentorship Program (Half Initiative).
Chris Innis has lectured and been on panels at film schools, universities and public schools including at The University of Southern California (USC) film school, The American Film Institute (AFI), The University of Nebraska Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film in Lincoln Nebraska, The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Lincoln Nebraska Public Schools Arts & Humanities Focus Program and John F. Kennedy public high school's filmmaking magnet program in Los Angeles, California.
