Christopher Morrison (mink) | |
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Born |
Christopher Wingfield Morrison London, England, United Kingdom |
Other names | mink |
Occupation | Film director, comic book novelist |
Christopher Wingfield Morrison (MINK) is a British American writer / film director and comic book novelist.
Christopher Morrison was born in London, England, and relocated with his parents to Los Angeles in the United States at the age of eight. Christopher attended photography college in Santa Barbara. His graduate film was runner up in the student academy awards.
Morrison's first job was as a runner at Walt Disney Studios and then he earned entry level positions on two Disney films. He then moved to the camera department of Sony Pictures Imageworks and worked on some of the biggest FX films and other projects of the mid 90's. In 1997 he wrote and directed his first feature film called "Bus" shot entirely in a Santa Monica City Bus in west Los Angeles. The film won gold at the Houston Film Festival. In 1998 he started work in the commercial/music video business working with acts like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Busta Rhymes, TLC, No Doubt, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Puffy, Nas, Beyonce, A Tribe called Quest, Will Smith as well as commercials for Coca-Cola, Gap, Nike, Reebok and many more.
This work led to him directing music videos for Snoop Dogg, Master P, Raphael Saadiq, Daniel Bedingfield, Lucy Pearl, South Central Cartel and Slum Village, along with Veruca Salt, Face to Face, Dead Poetic and Sheryl Crow . In 2000 he was a given a director spot at Bille Woodruff's company Geneva Films. In 2002, he moved to Lawrence Bender's and Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart films where he stayed until its closing in 2006.