CHRIS WAITT: Director

BIO
Chris is a BAFTA-award winning director who specialises in comedy for both live action and animation in film, TV and commercials.

Chris directed and co-created the hit TV comedy series Fur TV, an adult puppet show for MTV, which was the most viewed show on MTV Online and which won the prestigious 'Golden Rose of Montreux' (Rose D'Or).

His first feature film, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, produced by Warp Films and funded by Film4, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize. The film is currently being remade as a $60 million feature comedy by Jay Roach (Meet the Fockers, Austin Powers) which Chris will be executive producing for Universal Pictures.

AWARDS
Rose D'Or, Best International Pilot, Fur TV, winner
BAFTA, Best Short Film, Dupe, winner (Scotland)
BAFTA, Best Documentary, Heavy Metal Jr, nomin. (Scotland)
British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), Best Documentary, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, nominated
Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, nominated
Peter Sellers Comedy Award (Evening Standard) Chris Waitt, nominated
Gold Award, Best Online Campaign, Russian Advertising Awards, J-Factory (Jameson whiskey)