Director

Christopher Zalla

Directing

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Directed credits

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Regular directing credits.

TMDB popularity

0.7

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 3All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 931327

IMDb ID: nm2343031

Known for: Directing

Born: November 30, 1974

Age: 51

Place of birth: Kenya

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1990 - 2023

Years active: 34

Average TMDB rating: 7.32

Wikidata: Q113155411

Also known as

Chris Zalla

Frequent jobs

Director (6)Producer (1)

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Biography

Chris received an MFA with Honors in directing from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division, where the faculty awarded him a full Departmental Research Assistant fellowship for merit as a top student. He also served as a teaching assistant at Columbia, where he instructed undergraduates in weekly classes in film history, theory and craft. Chris was born in Kisumu, Kenya and spent much of his youth overseas. He has also worked as a rough carpenter and spent nine summer seasons as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska’s Bering Sea. He is fluent in Spanish and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.