ABOUT THE FILMMAKER CHRISTOPHER UPHAM

Christopher Upham is a producing writer-director living in San Francisco. His first documentary, Return to Dak To, is on the film festival circuit and won a Jury’s Citation, 2nd Prize at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. The film explores Upham’s experiences as a medic traveling back to Vietnam with four Army comrades and played at the National Gallery in Washington, DC in summer 2015.

Mr. Upham’s collaborators include: playwright John O’Keefe, directors Paul Saltzman, Taggart Siegel, Ellen Perry, William Farley, Yun Suh, Hisham Bizri, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and arms trafficking Investigator/producer Kathi Austin. Mr. Upham is on Staff at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Screenwriting program and has taught at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Film Society.

Mr. Upham’s first novel, Daktoum a fictional retelling of the events in Return to Dak To, will be published by Skywriter Books. His short fiction, Nothing To Crow About was anthologized in Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. Mr. Upham has professional acting credits in over 50 films, including a featured lead in Larry Clark’s Cutting Horse.

He began in the film business with legendary IMAX pioneer, Director Greg MacGillivray and has worked professionally at nearly every movie job above and below the line except for grip and gaffer. Mr. Upham’s current projects include: Sidewinder Justice, a dystopian war veteran’s revenge novel set in a desert city and Dark Gate, a San Francisco neo-noir transmedia film/novel.