
Christopher Jason Bell
Directing
Biography
Christopher Jason Bell is a New Jersey-based filmmaker and professor. Christopher Jason Bell’s body of work feels immense. Across a number of boldly experimental shorts and a pair of features, Bell has playfully wrestled with key moments in American history, turned a critical yet clear-eyed gaze at contemporary working class life, offered a stage for game performers to stretch the definition of ‘non-professional,’ and, best of all, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
Known For

Miss Me Yet takes a look back at the George W. Bush years and the destruction he left in his wake. The series was born out of the shared sweets with former first ladies, vacuous portraits of damaged war veterans, verbal tomfoolery on daytime talkshow sets, and the untold suffering of people who happen to have been born in the wrong place and the wrong time. There’s the way he both uses power, and does not use his power. There’s the way he feeds culture, and the way culture feeds him. Importantly: what did that do to all of us?
Miss Me Yet
During the 2016 United States presidential election, one man decides his 60th birthday party will be dedicated to making his own version of My Cousin Vinny. He enlists family and friends to help him make this movie. Present day ills are echoed in each members' performance despite the hamming, mugging, and canned laughter.
It Is Our Movie

Saeed braves an adolescent crush and an altercation with his best friend while his temperamental father Ali struggles to connect with him. Both they and the film are heading for a breakdown.
Incorrectional

"The City Is Like A Character In The Film" focuses on the burgeoning relationship between two out-of-towners named Ahmed (Ahmed Khawaja) and Julie (Alex Beechko), both down in the dumps before their accidental meeting in Manhattan. The two begin to open up to one another as the day progresses -- they kick off by commending the various allures of NYC and sitcom TV before diving into more serious topics such as grief, Islamophobia, Trump, and America.
The City Is Like A Character In The Film
Babysitter Elizabeth removes her infant charge from the home during a dangerous situation, but starts to wonder if she should return him... or keep him.
Bridges
Ahmad is a refugee from Syria, holding wishes of starting his own taxi service. When he loses his menial employment at a gas station, he attempts to navigate through the current American economy with optimism. Soon, reality settles in as consistent work is scarce. An impression of hopelessness slowly begins to take a toll on his relationships, faith, and sense of self, with his dream slipping quickly from his grasp.
The Winds That Scatter

Dale spends the majority of his time transporting various goods to people while attempting to carve out a social life in-between. Eventually the weight of work, his declining health, pressure from his manager and decaying social relations become too heavy to bear.
Failed State

Corey and Stew were high school friends. When Stew visits Corey at college, they both realize how little they actually have in common. "Pilgrimage" is a humorous look at friendship, our trouble with communication, and the silly lengths we go to not connect with one another.
Pilgrimage
A young woman remains stuck at the airport after escaping an abusive relationship.
Left

Two men design and build a detention center.
Boundaries

An isolated man agonizes over his response to economic woes and an uncaring system.
The Finger
An encounter at a bus stop answers the questions to one girl's life.
Bus Stop

What if your friend died in the stupidest way possible?
The Confection

Mohammad (Mohammad Dagman) hopes to enjoy a relaxing evening after work until an unnamed man (Greg Steinbruner) appears in his home, essentially kicking him out and furnishing him a new place to live. Mohammad, overwhelmed by the indifference of his independence, wanders around New York City while struggling to find his place in the world.
Mohammad So-and-So

Dale lives a solitary life in a small town, his only outlet being conversations with the local pharmacist Mohammad. As time passes, Dale slowly begins to reveal more of his life and history to Mohammad.
Trammel
Brian doesn't want to see Star Wars. But then he sees it? And then...?
The Expanded Universe

A lonely immigrant from Syria begins a friendship with a potentially dishonest American amputee.
One Times One
A conservative business owner gets a rude awakening when his sister-in-law stops by to talk about his dying father.