The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

It was directed by Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz from a screenplay by Chris Columbus and Richard Outten.

* 1958 – Chris Columbus, American director

Consequently, he was Rowling's first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000, but Warner Bros. ultimately chose Chris Columbus for the job.

I mean, Chris Columbus ' versions are terrible.

Chris Columbus — who had written the Spielberg-produced Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes — was hired to write the script.

Rick Nash, David Vyborny, Ray Whitney, Chris Clark, Fredrik Modin, Steve Mason, Geoff Sanderson, R. J. Umberger and Sergei Fedorov are some of the more prominent NHL figures to have donned a Columbus jersey.

The company originally wanted him to create a game based on Indiana Jones and the Monkey King / Garden of Life, a rejected script written by Chris Columbus for the third movie that would have seen Indiana looking for Chinese artifacts in Africa.

The screenplay was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg.

Director of the first and second Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus also kept a home in River Forest due to his wife's family ties, and Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano once lived in River Forest.

Chris Christie was also the Grand Marshall of the town's first, and soon thereafter, the county's Columbus Day Parade.

It starred David Keith as Elvis Presley, and was directed by Chris Columbus.

* Chris Columbus ( Filmmaker )

** Rent ( film ), a 2005 movie version of the musical, directed by Chris Columbus

* September 10 – Chris Columbus, director, producer & screenwriter

In 1993, Van Zandt wrote and produced " All Alone on Christmas " for the soundtrack of the Chris Columbus film Home Alone, which yielded singer Darlene Love her first hit since " A Fine, Fine Boy " from 1963, thirty-one years earlier.

Stossel and his former ABC News colleague Chris Cuomo are silent investors in Columbus Tavern, a restaurant on Columbus Avenue at 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

The series was created by movie director Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed by Eagles member Don Felder.

When Michael Chase Walker became Director of Children's Programs for the CBS Television Network he bought the show, changed the name to Galaxy High School and convinced up and coming screenwriter Chris Columbus to develop the show under his name.

During 1993, he composed the scores for M. Butterfly ( another collaboration with Cronenberg ), Philadelphia ( his second collaboration with Jonathan Demme ), and Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Chris Columbus.

* " Lazy Sunday " – A parody rap on the late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live ( December 2005 ), performed by Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell about their day going to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and getting cupcakes ( at Magnolia Bakery, the original of which is in Greenwich Village but there is also one at Columbus Ave at 69th St .).

Steven Spielberg was the film's executive producer and the screenplay was written by Chris Columbus.

The story of Gremlins was conceived by Chris Columbus.

** Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker ( b. 1921 )

1970 – 71, Australian musician and filmmaker Chris Lofven made ( monochrome ) promotional films for two of the biggest Australian hits of the period — Daddy Cool's " Eagle Rock " and Spectrum's " I'll Be Gone ".

* The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave his monumental documentary on the New Left movement of 1967-1977 the English title Grin Without a Cat.

* Chris Smith ( filmmaker ) ( born 1970 ), American filmmaker

He is a first cousin of recording artist Jimmie Spheeris, filmmaker Penelope Spheeris, and musician Chris Spheeris.

Laura Kidd works as a session musician ( previously playing bass for Tricky, Alex Parks and Lil ' Chris ), filmmaker and photographer and has released two solo albums under the name She Makes War.

* Chris Welsby ( experimental filmmaker )

He is married to Kristin Williamson ( sister of independent filmmaker Chris Löfvén ) and lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

* Chris Tashima ( 1978 ), Academy Award-winning filmmaker and actor.

Then around 1976, Pennebaker met experimental filmmaker turned documentarian Chris Hegedus.

The film was made by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus.

The music video was directed by filmmaker Chris Graham, who also directed some of Scribe's music videos.

Lynch on Lynch is a book of interviews with David Lynch, conducted, edited, and introduced by Chris Rodley, himself a filmmaker.

* Chris Kraus ( filmmaker )

* Chris Doty, filmmaker, journalist

Numerous cultural events were also part of the proceedings, the largest being a show at the famed Middle East Restaurant in nearby Cambridge featuring UK punk troubadour Billy Bragg, actor Chris Cooper, filmmaker John Sayles, and nearly 30 other acts and featured guests.

* Chris Tashima, actor and Academy Award-winning filmmaker ( Visas and Virtue )

Chris Cox is a filmmaker and voice actor.

These artists include, besides her husband and collaborator Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Josh Lazcano, Alicia McCarthy, Clare Rojas, Amy Franceschini, Thomas Campbell, Dan Flanagan, Symantha Gates, Nell Gould, filmmaker Bill Daniel, and musician Tommy Guerrero, for whom she designed album covers.

Skabba the Hutt were a Ska punk band that featured current The Bravery frontman / songwriter Sam Endicott on bass and keyboard-player John Conway, CSI: Miami actor Jonathan Togo, actor / filmmaker Will Carlough, session drummer Chris Markwood, solo-musician / voiceover-artist Brian Grosz and musician / illustrator Seth Berkowitz.

* Chris Owen ( director ) ( born 1944 ), Australian filmmaker

One night, while performing for some friends, an employee of the production company the Moonshine Conspiracy, run by surf filmmaker Taylor Steele and professional surfer Chris Malloy, heard her and asked Tristan to appear in the film the company was working on at the time entitled Shelter.