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Chris M. Rutledge is originally from Chicago, IL and currently resides in Atlanta, GA after several years in Los Angeles, CA. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he also pledged Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
He began his creative writing by penning short stories in 1997, later started a novel, then subsequently transitioned into screenwriting in 2009 after taking a screenwriting course at Emory University. The transition to screenwriting was appropriate since Chris has a strong interest in writing, fused with a passion for film.
He has written several feature-length screenplays over the years. Chris decided to "reverse engineer" one of his screenplays into a novel, which would eventually become his first published novel, "Murder at Venegoni's" in 2016 followed by "ASCLEPIUS" in 2019. His third novel, "We The People" was published in 2020 and was also adapted from one of his screenplays.
In 2018 Chris decided to direct and produce one of his screenplays. The short film titled "Trombone Jones" would later be chosen as an Official Selection and Best Actor Nominee in the WideScreen Film Fest in Las Vegas in 2019, and an Official Selection in the Golden State Film Fest in Los Angeles in 2020. This film is now available on Apple TV.
Chris' latest film "Date Nights" was shot in 2022 and is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi after five Official Selections in film festivals in LA, NY, Miami, Atlanta, and London.
Chris currently juggles writing novels, filmmaking, and screenwriting and plans to write future novels based on his screenplays and vice versa. Chris is also a huge fan of Boxing, so there's usually a Boxing reference in each of his stories.
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