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Chris Diani

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About Me


Howdy, I'm Chris.

I'm the director, co-writer and co-producer of the gay horror spoof Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, currently making the rounds at film festivals around the world.

I've also written and directed a handful of short films, including the award-winning Rabbit's Foot (a dark comedy about a national election being manipulated by amputation and animal sacrifice) and the western Bob Hope's Miracle Cure for Incarceration (the making of which was featured on Karl Krogstad's TV show "The American Avant Garde.")

Next up: a screwball comedy about sugar daddies, furries, and lightning strike survivors.

My Interests


Pop Culture

Indie Filmmaking

Queer History

Robots

Zombies

Drag Queens

Grilled Cheese

I'd like to meet:

Investors
Filmmakers
Writers
Actors
Artists
Democrats
Drag Queens
and Superstars of every sort

Music:

The Postal Service

The New Pornographers

Ben Folds

Magnetic Fields

The Shins

Rilo Kiley

Death Cab for Cutie

The Flaming Lips

Sufjan Stevens

Bloc Party

ABC

The Human League

Lemonheads

Scissor Sisters

R.E.M.

Tori Amos

Movies:

His Girl Friday

Vertigo

Breathless

Rushmore

The Palm Beach Story

Flirting with Disaster

The Matrix

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Shortbus

Brick

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

Some Like It Hot

Run Lola Run

The English Patient

Sunset Blvd.

Bringing Up Baby

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Fight Club

All About My Mother

Trick

Psycho Beach Party

Alien

Aliens

Night of the Living Dead

Amelie

The Shining

Girls Will Be Girls

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Television:

Veronica Mars

Heroes

Lost

Battlestar Galactica

Ugly Betty

Brothers & Sisters

Project Runway

Gilmore Girls

24

Wonderfalls

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

ALIAS

Firefly

Clone High

The O.C.

Books:

The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Almost Like Being in Love
by Steve Kluger
Generation X, Life After God, Microserfs, and All Families Are Psychotic
by Douglas Coupland
Like People in History
by Felice Picano
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
The Talented Mr. Ripley and Found in the Street
by Patricia Highsmith
Running with Scissors and Dry
by Augusten Burroughs
Brightness Falls
by Jay McInerny
Becoming a Man
by Paul Monette
I Am Not Myself These Days
by Josh Kilmer Purcell
Barrel Fever
by David Sedaris
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Such Times
by Christopher Coe
The Dead Girl
by Melanie Thernstrom
The Page Turner and Martin Bauman: or, A Sure Thing
by David Leavitt
Angry Young Spaceman
by Jim Munroe
The Cheese Monkeys
by Chip Kidd
Asleep
by Banana Yoshimoto
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier

Heroes:

Alan Turing

Harvey Milk

Ellen Degeneres

Larry Kramer

John Cameron Mitchell

John Waters

Nathan Hale