Feature Films:

Fairytales and Pornography (2003, 80 mins - writer, director, co-producer).
A lawyer falls in love with a client accused of theft, not realizing she has a past in the porn industry.

Produced through The Canadian Film Centre's Feature Film Project. Producers: Rick Warden and Kelly Harms. Starring Kelly Harms (The Uncles), Lindy Booth (The Skulls II), Michael Ironside (The Perfect Storm, Top Gun), Eric Peterson (Street Legal), and Mimi Kuzyk (LA Law).

Winner: Best Director, 2004 Palm Beach International Film Festival.

World Sales: The Feature Film Project: 2489 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON, M2L 1A8. ffp@cdnfilmcentre.com

The Happy Couple (2002, 109 mins - writer, director).
Two salesmen bet whether one can seduce the other one's wife.

Produced by Silverthorn Pictures. Producer: Dan Woods and Chris Philpott. Executive Producer: Mike Cappa. Starring Kelly Harms (Picture Claire), Chris Owens (X-Files), Waneta Storms (Eleventh Hour) and Gordon Currie (waydowntown).

Winner: Best Screenplay, 2003 Phoenix Film Festival.

Canadian Distributor: Big Barn Films, 2 College St, suite 108, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5G 1K3. themgc.istar.ca

World Sales: Chris Philpott, 424 Rogers Rd, Toronto, ON, M6M 1A3. cwphilpott@hotmail.com.

The Eternal Husband (1998, 94 mins, writer, director, co-producer).
Two old friends play a dark game after one of their wives passes away.

Produced by Stacey Donen and Mark Caswell. Starring Richard Hughes and Paul Babiak.

"Chris Philpott's screenplay for The Eternal Husband, adapting the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, is superb. Philpott, a Canadian who directs as well as he writes, manages to convey the nuances of the text with some wonderfully inventive staging... There's a talent in our midst, and his name is Chris Philpott."
-Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail.

"The undiscovered treasure of the Toronto independent scene - Philpott's work combines daring formal inventiveness with piercing psychological insights."
-Atom Egoyan, director of Ararat, The Sweet Hereafter.

"A rare and precious pleasure... Philpott choreographs a deft pas de deux between two men where it's never clear who really has the upper hand."
-Dimitri Katadotis, Montreal Hour.

"A remarkably assured, emotionally resonant low-budget feature... haunting and hypnotic: an arresting and original feature debut"
-Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star.

Canadian distributor: Domino Films, 4002, ave Grey, Montreal, QC, Canada, H4A 3P1. domino@dominofilm.ca

World Sales: 424 Rogers Rd, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6M 1A3. cwphilpott@hotmail.com

Short Films:

Silent DNA (1995, 24 mins, writer, director, co-producer).
A love story. And a science fiction film. And a documentary about genetics.

Produced by Stacey Donen and Chris Philpott. Starring Chris Leavins and Nicole Oliver.

Winner: Silver Bear, Festival of Nations, Ebensee, Austria.

(××××- Highest rating) "Might be the best short of this year's Festival."
- Marc Horton, Edmonton Journal.

"Phenomenal"
- Joanne Morgan, Playback Magazine.

"The best indie pic I've seen in a long, long time."
- Carolyn Bennett, Eye (Toronto).

Distributor: The Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, suite 220, 37 Hanna Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6K 1W8. cfmdc@cfmdc.org

Scenes From Macbeth (1992, 45 mins, writer, director, editor).
Shakespeare-spouting businessmen slaughter each other between power-lunches.

Produced by Kathleen Breedyk and Rod Pasic. Starring John Isaacs and Michaela Mathieu.

"One of the best Canadian films I've ever watched." -Shelagh Rogers, CBC. "Superb... startling, funny, disconcerting and highly original."
-Paul McKie, Winnipeg Free Press.

"Inspired... Initially the concept is hilarious but the film also has the appropriate grim menace and melancholy getting stranger and darker as it progresses."
-David Kronke, Dallas Times-Herald.

Distributor: The Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, suite 220, 37 Hanna Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6K 1W8. cfmdc@cfmdc.org

Commissioned Screenplays:

ReGenesis (series). TMN - The Movie Network. 1 hour episode: "The Trials". For Shaftesbury Films. A drama about a UN organization policing crises in biotech.

The Atwood Stories (series). W - The Women's Network. Half-hour episode: "The Sunrise" an adaptation of a short story by Margaret Atwood, co-written with Francine Zuckerman. For Shaftesbury Films. Portrait of an artist living on the edge.

The Last Free Men (Feature commissioned by Armand Leo and Ralph Berge of Paramount). The Wild Bunch with bikers. Five aging sixties' rebels escape a bloody purge by the younger, more business-oriented club leaders and make a last heist, a last stand and recover lost dreams.

The Fisherman's Knife (Feature commissioned by Armand Leo, John Bradshaw and Deanne Judson). Three couples go on a canoe trip. Affairs, suspicion and murder in the wilderness.

The Scottish Play (Feature commissioned by Armand Leo) Shakespeare in blood. A thriller set behind the scenes of the first staging of Macbeth, in the 1606, amid the turmoil and terror following The Gun Powder Plot.

Contact information:

Chris Philpott

Los Angeles: 310.502.7564

Toronto: 416.654.9697 fax: 416.654.9698

424 Rogers Rd, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6M 1A3. cwphilpott@hotmail.com