Production
Chris Charles
Born 1983-12-13 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chris Charles is an award-winning filmmaker who was born on December 13, 1983 in the Chicago suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA but grew up in Maine. He studied Film and Television at Columbia College Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 2005, Chris joined the team at Beverly Ridge Pictures, where he cast, directed, and produced a variety of commercials, short films, and features. Then in 2012, Chris and longtime collaborator John W. Bosher founded Throughline Films, a development, production, sales, and consultation company. There, Chris and John have produced and arranged worldwide distribution for dozens of film and TV projects. More recently, they launched Very Merry Entertainment, a holiday label that produces uplifting, family-friendly content. Chris also co-wrote the action thriller "The Marksman" starring Liam Neeson. The film opened on nearly 2,000 screens, overtaking "Wonder Woman 1984" to become #1 at the box office for two consecutive weeks and one of the highest grossing independent films of 2021. Chris went on to co-author a novelization of The Marksman that was published August 29, 2023 and debuted as a Top New Release on Amazon.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.8Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.
The Marksman
2021
6.0When middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another twist of fate becomes an accomplice to a violent crime.
The Cleaner
2021
8.0An ambitious hotel manager returns to her family's B&B for Christmas to find all three of her high school exes staying there.
Exes of Christmas Past
2025
An entrepreneur brokering a sponsorship to build the city zoo's new penguin habitat finds herself caught between business and romance after falling for a compassionate zookeeper over the holidays.
Christmas at the Zoo
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An entrepreneur brokering a sponsorship to build the city zoo's new penguin habitat finds herself caught between business and romance after falling for a compassionate zookeeper over the holidays.
Christmas at the Zoo
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6.1When an idealistic TV producer is assigned a puff piece about a Christmas toy manufacturer over the holidays, a charming toymaker inspires her to search her heart to find true happiness.
Reporting for Christmas
2023
5.8A struggling young baker in no mood for the holidays returns to her small hometown, where her festive family and a handsome farmer try to get her back in the Christmas spirit.
Christmas with Felicity
2021
6.8The Columbine shootings were a tragic event in American history and have proved a lasting influence in continued acts of violence ever since. In this harrowing account, student and faculty survivors of Columbine, Amy, Gus, Jaimi, Zach, Mr. Leyba and Principal DeAngelis, reflect on the event that has both shaped them and created an unbreakable spirit shared between them. This is not the story of death, but of the process of healing in the face of the unspeakable.
We Are Columbine
2019