ABOUT

Filmmaker, writer, and artist Chris Fiore, born 1959 in Norfolk, Virginia, received his BFA from Antioch College in 1984 before moving to New York City. In the late 80’s he was one of the founders of the Zone, an artist collective occupying an abandoned williamsburg warehouse at 104 South 4th St. after the shuttering of the zone, he exhibited at the East Village’s KOAP gallery through the early 90’s.

Fiore’s first feature documentary, Trip and Go Naked, shot in 1995 and edited over the course of five years between paid jobs, won the Excellence in Sexual Theater award at the 2004 Arlene’s Grocery Picture Show.

Notable 90’s television credits include Victoria’s secret Christmas dreams & fantasies for showtime, and bizarre world, two prime time specials for Fox Television.

in 2000 He went on to direct the feature documentary Backstage for Miramax/dimension, a behind the scenes look at Jay Z’s Hard Knock Life Tour. Backstage had a profitable run in theaters and was a late night staple on the Showtime network for years. He followed up with Born For This, which featured a young band called Paramore rocking the country on their first warp tour.

Fiore’s first feature film script, The Utopia Virus, was a finalist in the 2006 Final Draft Big Break Competition, garnering him representation and a Hollywood roller coaster ride as directors Darron Aronofsky, Tony Scott, and Renny Harlin all considered making the film.

in 2008 Fiore wrote the Wassup Obama ad, described by Salon.com as one of the most creative of the 2008 presidential campaign and winner of a Cannes Lion for director Charles Stone.

Fiore’s 2015 documentary, Goodwoman, tells the story of Debra Goodman, a retired legal secretary turned political activist who was brutally arrested for filming the NYPD during an otherwise innocous encounter with a homeless friend. Featured in several film festivals, Goodwoman won the Grand Jury Award at the 2016 film Invasion Los Angeles.

2016 was also the year he began to exhibit with brooklyn’s Ethan petit gallery, followed in 2018 with his first european shows, exhibiting in Paris and Cologne.

C0-Producing and editing along with co-producer and director David kornfield’s 2017 the red umbrella diaries, found fiore delving into the lives of 7 New York City sex workers as they prepared for an night of intimate revelation on stage at the public Theater’s Joe’s Pub. The resultant documentary was featured in 12 film festivals, winning the New York Cinekink award for best documentary.

in what was to become a 5 year journey, 2019 saw fiore begin filming artists Carlos pinto and John sear as they began work on the first mosaic commissioned by the national Audubon society’s Audubon mural project. the film was shut down, like everything else, by the 2020 global covid pandemic.

filmed initially in a shuttered restaurant in the midst of a plague, 2022 had fiore re-teem with director David Kornfield as story producer, editor and photo animator, for his film of all the gin joints. an epic 40 year history of casablanca; A restaurant built as shrine to the 1942 cinematic masterpiece in an effort to woo a young bartender enamored of the Humphrey Bogart & Eva Gardner classic, casablanca. Off all the gin joints went on to win the 2023 audience award at the Culver City film festival.

Finally completed in 2024, fiore’s Audubon mosaic documentary, now titled Broadway & Swan, won the 2025 Berlin Indie Film Festival award for best Artist film, and fittingly, the 2025 CineParis Festival award for best environmental film, before becoming an official selection of the 10th anniversary edition of film invasion Los Angeles, the same festival that awarded his film Goodwoman the grand jury prize a decade earlier.

“a life long love of science fiction has imbued me with a passion for ideas. a delight in new realities and ways of being that propels my art and film forward with a sense of discovery and love of human creativity that brings me immense joy. if I can transform that creative ecstasy into a story or image that connects with an audience, whether it’s in a theater, gallery, or living room, then i’ve done my job. “

Chris fiore