Chris Balton displays a wide range of directorial experience in both film and video with his interesting, innovate style. Bringing over 30 years of directing experience for fortune 500 corporations, TV advertising, and broadcast entertainment clients, Chris believes listening is the most important part of his job, hearing what clients have to say, doing what they ask, while remaining flexible and accountable from start to finish.

With a strong artistic background, having studied painting at Pratt Institute School of Art & Design, Chris gained extensive experience in his early 20’s as a cameraman for ABC Evening News in the Middle East with Peter Jennings, in New York with Barbara Walters, and on assignment in Central America with Geraldo Rivera. In 1979 Chris became a director of photography, shooting hundreds of television commercials in New York City at Unitel, National Video and MTI, as well lensing several low-budget features. Always seeking a new challenge, he turned to shooting music videos for Atlantic Records Ted Nugent, Carly Simon, Donna Summer, and Al Green to name a few.

While creating programming for the Jumbotron screen high above Times Square Chris developed a strong relationship with SONY Electronics. Always eager to try new ideas he was an early adopter of Avid non-linear editing in the nineteen-nineties on commercial and corporate video projects. As a producer / editor with a keen understanding of all phases of television production, digital compositing and non-linear editing Chris keeps his clients projects on-schedule and under budget.

A consummate communications professional Chris’ expertise has won critical acclaim with numerous awards, including two Emmy Awards, and several Gold and Silver awards in the International Film and Television Festival of New York. Chris has built an enviable reputation by delivering an outstanding product at an exceptional value.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
30 years of experience producing and directing; conceptualization, production design and planning, conducting casting sessions, location scouting, shooting and lighting film & video for IBM, Pitney Bowes, L’Oreal, Sony Electronics, SAP, and Campbell’s Soup featured in tradeshows, in-house videos and national sales meetings. 15 years of intensive professional non-linear editing on Avid / Media 100 / Final Cut Pro Studio. Casting, rehearsing and blocking actors for multi-camera video. High definition shooting, lighting and editing at Sony Electronics for ten years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
25 Years of design experience working with art directors and set designers, collaborating with product managers in corporations to deliver sales and training videos for business meetings and international trade show exhibits, such as NAB / CES / COMDEX / RTNDA. Complete familiarity operating Sony XD-Cam ex, Sony HDW F-900 / Sony DVW-709 DigiBeta / Sony BVW-400 / Canon XL-2 / Arri-35BL / Arriflex 16SR / Panavision PFX 35mm film.

PRODUCTION SKILLS
Steadicam operator (video), Helicopter cinematographer (film and video ) experienced camera operations from Zeus / Electra II / and Nike Chapman Studio Cranes, Jimmy Jib Operator with Hot Head. Shootimg Car–to-Car, motorcycle platform for bicycle races. Underwater video PADI – advanced open water scuba diver. Volunteer firefighter – Jaws of life / rescue / entrapment

EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY School of Art & Design, Major drawing and painting, form & space, light color & design. Minor Concentration: Film / Video

VIDEO DIRECTOR The Who’s “Tommy” “Guys & Dolls” Millie Jackson live - NHK Japan George Plimpton “Mouseterpiece Theater” Sylvia Porters Personal Finance New Years Eve WNEW Rock & Roll Ball Calvin Klein Women’s Wear Daily Bill Blass Women’s Wear Daily NBA Inside Stuff with Ahmad Rashad Fashion In A Flash PRODUCER / DIRECTOR "Sisters In The Name Of Rap" with; Queen Latifah, Salt N’Pepa, MC Lyte, Ice Cube Jackie The Jokeman Martling "Live" Connie Francis "An American Treasure" “When The Musics Over” Football Flashbacks with Len Dawson PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / CAMERAMAN Ted Nugent “No, No, No” Donna Summer “State Of Independence” Al Green “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Ted Nugent “Bound & Gagged Carly Simon “Why” Alisha “BabyTalk” Hootie & The Blowfish concert CAMERAMAN Interior Design: The New Freedom Barbaralee Diamonstien (host) Sesame Street - Public Broadcasting Pinwheel Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert ABC TV Late Night concert wraparounds Watkins Glen Formula One Race New York City Marathon From Racquel with Love "The Jack Gilford Special" with Anita Gillette "Night Of 100 Stars" @ Radio City Music Hall "Look Back In Anger" with Malcolm McDowell Olivia Newton-John "Physical Tour" Hall Of Fame Basketball playoffs Begin / Sadat Peace Summit - Cairo, Egypt Panama Canal Treaty Signing - Balboa, Panama Son Of Sam Capture, New York City "Live from CBGBs" NYC June 1979 “In Search Of” Series Alan Lansburg prods. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Black Sabbath / Blue Oyster Cult

Fox TV - St. James Theater NYC Fox TV - Martin Beck Theater NYC The Apollo Theater NYC -NHK Japan Disney Channel Lifetime Cable TV Live TV show / Times Square (WWD) KTV / John Fairchild (WWD) KTV / John Fairchild NBA Entertainment (wraparounds) Man in the Moon Productions Polygram Pay-per-view Special Polygram Diversified Entertainment Rascals Comedy Club Polygram Special Projects HBO Home Box Office Special TVS Television Sports - Don Ellis Atlantic Records Atlantic Records Mingo Jones Advertising Atlantic Records WEA International Vanguard Records Time Warner Goodwill Games Kickoff in Rockefeller Center A&E cable network David Gordon - ABC Video Enterprises PBS CTW - Walt Rauffer producer Nickelodeon - Mike Bernhaut director Video Performance Studio George Harrison - producer ESPN Fred Dukes director ABC TV ABC TV Racquel Welch - producer CBS Sonny Fox Prods Alexander Cohen - producer PBS Great Performances Dir. Lindsay Anderson HOME BOX OFFICE live in Ogden Utah TVS Television network ABC Evening News - Peter Jennings ABC Evening News - Geraldo Rivera ABC Evening News - Barbara Walters Annie Golden / Karla DeVito Orchestra Luna Leonard Nimoy (wraparounds) Mitchell Kreigman “Heart to Heart” Mitchell Kreigman “Memories of a Room” “Someone’s Hiding in my Apartment” Bill Irwin The Dancing Man “Black & Blue” Jay Dubin Productions 35mm feature rockumentary

International Film & Television Festival of New York
Sony "DXC1850 Applications Tape"
Bronze Medal
Client : Kalcom Media

Golden Camera Award
The Disney Channel
"Mousterpiece Theater"
Client : Shadow Projects

International Film & Television Festival of New York
Pitney Bowes "The New Contenders"
Silver Award
Client : Avion Communications

International Film & Television Festival of New York
Picker International "Climbin' To The Top"
Gold Award
Client : Goodsight / Herrmann Inc

International Film & Television Festival of New York
Sylvia Porters "Personal Finance"
Silver Medal
Client : Parker / Hodges Prods.

International Film & Television Festival of New York
PBS Documentary "Dawn Alburquerque"
Gold Medal
Client : Avion Communications

Chicago International Film Festival
American Museum Of Natural History
"Knowledge & Inspiration for the Imagination"
Client : Exploration Telefilm

Corestate U.S. Pro Cycling Championship
Monitor Award
Client : FOX

International Film & Television Festival of New York
Citibank "Bankbusters"
Silver Award
Client : Fannon & Osmond NYC

Chicago International Film Festival
The Mystery Of The S.S. Republic
Golden Reel Award
Client : Exploration Telefilm

IDEA 2000
Monsanto "Beautiful Science" Exhibit: Silver
Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2000 competition
Sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and IDSA
Client : Thinc Design

IDEA 2004
Cleveland Botanical Garden Orientation Theater: Silver
Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2004 competition
Sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and IDSA
Client : Thinc Design

ABC news ACG Communications Group American Museum of Nat Hist Atlantic Records Avaya Avion Communications Inc. Bankers Trust Batfilm Productions Inc. Bernard Hodes Advertising Bristol Meyers Squibb Cable ad Ventures Campbells Soup Caribiner Chase Bank Close Productions ConAgra Foods Concorde Communications Continental Color & Recording Crazy Eddie Advertising Cubic B's Daymon Worldwide Dictaphone Dole Food Company Dole Fresh Fruit Eisai Inc. Elektra Records Esquire Magazine Ethicon Exploration Telefilm Fannon & Osmond Flickers Inc FOX Television Golden Books Gorilla Films Goodsight Herrmann Inc Harrison Suggs Productions Heidelberg-Harris Hertz Holiday Inn Home Box Office Howard Goldstein Organization     Icon Communications IKEA Image Zone Jack Morton Productions J P Morgan Chase Lilygild Ltd. Lipton L’Oreal McDonald's Corporation Mediawave Monsanto Nabisco Foods NBA Entertainment Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Parker/Hodges Productions Pfizer Philip Morris Pitney Bowes Polygram Entertainmant Pro Tours Sireno Communications Streamline Graphic Designs Sony Electronics Inc. The Image Group The West Bank Creative Thinc. Design Time Life Books Todd Street Productions TV Guide Unitel Video Productions United States Television VAIO Van Den Bergh foods Vanguard Recording Society Video Innovations Video Software Productions Warner Elektra Asylum Records Wear Dated West Bank Creative Inc. Winner Communications WNYW - FOX NY Wright Brothers Productions