2024Winner
Best Director
Failed State
Christopher Jason Bell
Director · Producer · Writer
Biography
Christopher Jason Bell is a New Jersey-based filmmaker and professor. Christopher Jason Bell’s body of work feels immense. Across a number of boldly experimental shorts and a pair of features, Bell has playfully wrestled with key moments in American history, turned a critical yet clear-eyed gaze at contemporary working class life, offered a stage for game performers to stretch the definition of ‘non-professional,’ and, best of all, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2025Nominee
Best Director
The Confection
2019Nominee
Best Director
Boundaries
Career Highlights
2010Highlight
Best Director
Pilgrimage
2018Highlight
Best Writing
Incorrectional