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Christopher Wingfield Morrison (MINK) is a British American writer / film director and comic book novelist.
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Early life
Christopher Morrison was born in London, England, and relocated with his parents to Los Angeles in the United States at the age of eight. Christopher attended photography college in Santa Barbara. His graduate film was runner up in the student academy awards.
Career
Morrison's first job was as a runner at Walt Disney Studios and then he earned entry level positions on two Disney films. He then moved to the camera department of Sony Pictures Imageworks and worked on some of the biggest FX films and other projects of the mid 90's. In 1997 he wrote and directed his first feature film called "Bus" shot entirely in a Santa Monica City Bus in west Los Angeles. The film won gold at the Houston Film Festival. In 1998 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, Beyonce, A Tribe called Quest, Will Smith as well as commercials for Coca-Cola, Gap, Nike, Reebok and many more.
This work led to him directing music videos for Snoop Dogg, Master P, Raphael Saadiq, Daniel Bedingfield, Lucy Pearl, South Central Cartel and Slum Village, along with Veruca Salt, Face to Face, Dead Poetic and Sheryl Crow . In 2000 he was a given a director spot at Bille Woodruff's company Geneva Films. In 2002, he moved to Lawrence Bender's and Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart films where he stayed until its closing in 2006.
In 2004 Morrison signed with ICM Partners. Morrison directed 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 he was attached and developed the remake of Mortal Kombat with Larry Kasanoff producing through Threshold Entertainment and New Line Cinema . The movie never happened for various reasons. In 2008 Morrison then wrote and is developed a big screen version of Ninja Gaiden with a prominent US & Japanese film company..
Morrison also has written a number of creator-owned graphic novels for Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics, including Dust, 13 Chambers. & Shinjuku with artist Yoshitaka Amano.
In 2008, he started Twistory, a company based on his vision of creative storytelling. Twistory from 2009-2014 developed and released three mobile video games, a fusion art magazine and an original story that was then developed into a television hybrid/social game show. Belle's War(the game/TV show) an original concept by Morrison started airing inside episodes of Fox Sport's 1 World Poker Tour in the fall of 2014. In early 2015 he left Twistory as the company under all new 2015 leadership changed its core focus to STEM based Educational toys and cartoons for young children moving away from its roots.
Currently he is developing/writing new material for a couple of Major Studios and Publishers.