| Chris Innis | |
| Born | Christina Jean Innis San Diego, California, U.S. |
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| Other name(s) | Chris Innis |
| Occupation | film editor |
| Spouse(s) | Bob Murawski (1997–present) |
Chris Innis is an American film editor.[1]
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Christina Jean "Chris" Innis was born and raised in San Diego, California the eldest daughter of architect Donald Innis and his wife, teacher and well-known floral designer, Virginia. As a teenager, Chris Innis worked at several San Diego area movie theaters as a theater usher and concession stand cashier.[2]
Innis moved to the Bay Area where she graduated from U.C. Berkeley, majoring in film studies. While a student at Cal Berkeley, Innis interned for several noteworthy San Francisco production companies, including for the commercial company owned and operated by cinematographer Ron Eveslage (most famous for George Lucas' lighting and camera work on American Graffiti).[2]
Music video director David Rathod (of Huey Lewis/The Bangles music videos) was directing and editing his first independent feature film, West is West (1987). Rathod first introduced Chris Innis to a cutting room, and she was hired to work on the film as an assistant editor. Innis would later apprentice under film editors Pietro Scalia (The Quick and the Dead), Joe Hutshing (Indecent Proposal), Jay Freund (The Wash), and DesiLu I Love Lucy TV series editor, editor of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Dann Cahn Sr.[1] Dann Cahn had also famously trained Steven Spielberg's long-time film editor, Michael Kahn.
Chris Innis furthered her education with post-graduate film studies at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the school started by Walt Disney. At CalArts, Innis received a MFA degree in filmmaking. While at CalArts, in addition to directing and producing several student films and experimental videos, Chris Innis would go on to edit music videos featuring rappers Ice Cube, Onyx and DMX, as well as edit the first music video directed by film director Ridley Scott's daughter, Jordan Scott (Fine "Industrial is Dead"). Innis also directed and/or produced almost two dozen karaoke videos of favorite hits for Japanese firm Pioneer Electronics, including karaokes for Prince and Aerosmith.[1]
After a move to Hollywood, Innis worked her way up in the editorial department on several independent films, before being asked to work as an apprentice editor on director Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning film, JFK. Chris Innis was mentored for the following six years by multiple Academy Award-winning film editor, native son of Italy, Pietro Scalia. The two would work as a team on films such as director Ridley Scott's film G.I. Jane starring Demi Moore, White Man's Burden starring John Travolta, as well as the TV pilot American Gothic, among other film and commercial projects.[1]
Chris Innis progressed as an assistant editor, music editor and film editor for cult film director Sam Raimi (known for The Evil Dead series of films and later to become well known for the successful Spider-man films). Innis was promoted to first assistant editor on Raimi's western genre-bender, The Quick and the Dead (starring Sharon Stone), which started a long-term working relationship and friendship with Sam Raimi. Innis was then promoted by Raimi to the job of editor on the CBS/Universal cult horror TV series, American Gothic. Innis has since edited several films, including the Iraq war film about EOD military bomb techs which was shot in Jordan, The Hurt Locker (co-edited with partner Bob Murawski), for well-known action film director, Kathryn Bigelow (of Near Dark fame).[1]
Innis has worked as a co-producer, writer, and editor with Bob Murawski and Sage Stallone on the distribution of cult horror films for Grindhouse Releasing and Murawski's own Box Office Spectaculars distribution companies. The companies have meticulously restored and digitally remastered classic European cult horror films Make Them Die Slowly (aka Cannibal Ferox (1981)) and Lucio Fulci's spaghetti-horror masterpiece, E tu vivrai nel terrore (aka The Beyond) (1981) as well as Cannibal Holocaust (1980), homegrown American cult favorite, I Drink Your Blood (1970) (directed by David E. Durston), director Juan Piquer Simón's Spanish slasher film, Pieces and Cat in the Brain also directed by Italian horror filmmaker, Lucio Fulci.[2]
She has also written and directed several films and experimental videos. One of Chris Innis' videos was featured in the group show "About TV: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art" which screened at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park (along with fellow experimental video artists Bill Viola, Nam June Paik, and Nancy Buchanan). Innis was also a past quarter-finalist and semi-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Don and Gee Nicholl's Fellowship in Screenwriting Awards, as well as a past semi-finalist in The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project. Innis has also screened at LA Freewaves.
Chris Innis is married to fellow film editor and film distributor Bob Murawski. The two editors were introduced to one another by film director Sam Raimi and met while both were editing the Universal/CBS cult television series executive produced by Raimi, American Gothic. Her sister is well-known Bay Area artist, Cynthia Ona Innis, who has also served as production designer on Innis' films.[2]
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