Chris LaMont is a filmmaker who co-founded the Phoenix Film Festival in 2000 and is currently its president.

Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University, and while there he won an Emmy Award for Student Production for the local sketch comedy series, “TV or Not TV”. He -directed his first feature with Steve Bencich , The Best Movie Ever Made featuring TV’s Batman, Adam West. His next feature, Writer’s Block, was released to video stores, and the Hitchcock-like horror-thriller earned critic and fan praise, including a 3 1/2 star rating in the Blockbuster Video Guide.