CHRIS FORD

Writer/Director/Producer

This is my first feature film and the first thing I’ve directed. Aside from that, there are few things you need to know about me from a biographical standpoint.

I was born in California, but grew up in Reno. My mom was a nurse and my father was in law enforcement. I graduated from Hunter Lake Elementary School, Swope Middle School, Reno High School and the University of Nevada, Reno, in that order.

I am a group creative director at the advertising agency of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. My last name is neither Goodby nor Silverstein nor am I a partner, but I’ve been here for quite some time and it’s fun.

I began writing The Village Barbershop in 1998 in response to overhearing a co-worker much older than I say, “Some day I’m going to write a script.”

I decided to figure out how to make The Village Barbershop while shooting some commercials with Ed Burns and his producing partner, Aaron Lubin, who casually, over drinks of some kind, insisted it wasn’t that hard for a first-time director to make his first feature film.

Principal photography for said barbershop movie began seven days after Laddie Richardson Construction cut the back half of my home off to begin what would become a nine-month remodel. This home, sans rear wall, is where my wife, Leslie, and our two children, Cole and Cameran, lived while I spent our summer vacation from said advertising agency going over budget on said “not that hard to make” first feature film.

My favorite color is blue. I like Peet’s coffee. I have 67 pairs of tennis shoes. I’m 39 years old. I can’t dunk. I’m right-handed. I like pranks. I’m bad at sports with the exceptions of golf and snowboarding. I’ve probably misspelled a word somewhere in this bio. And after the whole home remodel/indie film summer vacation, I am, unbelievably, still married.