Name Kris Meyer Movies The Lost Son of Havana | Role Film producer | |
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Nominations Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary Similar People Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Jonathan Hock, Connor Schell, Libby Geist | ||
Kris Meyer - Producer
Meyer (b. July 1, 1969) is an Emmy nominated American film and television producer.
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Early life
Meyer grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and is the son of a Vietnam veteran. Kris comes from a long family line of Boston Firefighters. He attended Boston College High School and then Boston College, graduating in 1991 as a double eagle. Upon graduation, he relocated to California to pursue a career in the movie industry.
Career
In 1997, Meyer began working as an assistant to the Farrelly Brothers on the comedy There's Something About Mary (1998). In 2000 and 2001, he continued his work with the Farrelly Brothers as an associate producer on films Me, Myself & Irene and Shallow Hal. Meyer then co-produced Stuck On You (2003), Fever Pitch (2005), The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and Hall Pass (2011). Meyer has worked on many independent projects. In 2007, he worked as a producer on the independent film On Broadway. Most recently, Meyer served as the executive producer on the documentary Plimpton! which debuted on US television on PBS American Masters on May 16, 2014, earning a 95% "Fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
While filming Fever Pitch in 2004, Meyer met Luis Tiant. Tiant shared with Meyer his dream to return to Cuba, Tiant's birth country. Tiant had been trying to return on his own. Meyer offered to help Tiant with hopes that a film crew could travel with him and film the journey. Under the guise of a goodwill baseball team, Tiant and the crew entered Cuba. The documentary, The Lost Son of Havana premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2009. Geoff Edgars, a Boston Globe writer, said of the film:
The Lost Son of Havana was nominated by The National Academy of Arts and Television Sciences for a 2010 Sports Emmy Award.
In 2011, Meyer co-produced The Three Stooges—a Farrelly Brothers adaptation of the classic shorts—in Atlanta. Production wrapped in late July 2011.
In 2014, Meyer was a production executive for Dumb and Dumber To. The film was a sequel to the 1994 smash hit, Dumb and Dumber. It would go on to gross around $170 million internationally.
Awards
In 2010, Meyer was the first recipient of the "Ruffled Feather Award" for excellence in film at the Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival.
On Broadway won the Audience chosen Best Feature award at the Woods Hole Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film in the New Hampshire Film Festival and had six nominations in the Hoboken Film Festival. At the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival On Broadway won the Sundance Channel Audience Award for Best Film.
Lost Son Of Havana won the award for Best Film at the Baseball Hall of Fame's Film Festival in 2009. When asked for comment on the win Meyer said "It has been an incredible honor to make a film about one of baseball’s legends, and to screen it in Cooperstown at the Baseball Film Festival and to win it is just icing on the cake."