Chris James Thompson
Directing
Biography
Chris James Thompson's feature debut 'The Jeffrey Dahmer Files' (SXSW) was acquired by IFC & declared a NYT Critic's Pick. He also directed 'MECCA: The Floor' for ESPN 30for30, produced 'The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers' (Sundance/CNN Films), and edited the features: Plucked (Tribeca), Pet Names (Amazon Studios), & Chasing Bubbles (YouTube).
Known For

When her ill mother urges her to take a vacation from her caretaking, grad-school-dropout Leigh invites her ex along on the camping trip. The two soon find that confronting old wounds during a weekend in the woods is anything but restful.
Pet Names

The ghost of Hamlet's father orders him to kill his uncle, and the easily distracted prince makes up a bunch of excuses to avoid doing it.
Hamlet A.D.D.

An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalised scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a quest for answers, justice and reform as the investigation unfolds.
The Blood Is at the Doorstep

THE 414s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983 when they broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a classified nuclear weapons research facility.
The 414s

US Air Force JAG Attorney Yvonne Bradley was assigned to defend a man held at Guantanamo Bay. Believing Guantanamo held ‘the worst of the worst’, her world was turned upside down once she arrived in Cuba and began to untangle an unimaginable case.
We Are Not Ghouls

Five distinctive people, each with a flimsy coping strategy, find themselves stuck together after an accident.
Back at the Staircase

A woman attempts to explain to her vegetative mother the recent, sudden death of her sister.
Needlepoint

An intimate look at the creation of Autumn, a unique tour by the notoriously cryptic band Bon Iver.
Bon Iver: Autumn

A woman is forced to confront her past when her nine-year-old sister runs away after discovering a family secret.
Dear Coward on the Moon

In the 1970s the city of Milwaukee hired an artist to paint the Bucks' floor. More than 30 years later, Bucks fan Andy Gorzalski puts his family's credit card down for $20k to protect this iconic symbol of the city's history.
MECCA: The Floor That Made Milwaukee Famous

A former insurance agent in Racine, Wisconsin constructs a complete 1920s movie theater in his basement, creating an extraordinary alternate world.