Chris Osborn is a director and editor based in New York.

GUSSY, Osborn’s most recent short, is an experimental queer horror film about boyhood and monsters. It premiered as one of eleven American short films presented at Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, before continuing onto Fantasia for its North American premiere, and a global festival run. In 2023, GUSSY was selected to screen at MoMA, as part of The Future of Film is Female, the museum’s annual survey of work created by women and nonbinary filmmakers.

Osborn is currently developing their debut feature, a Midwestern crime thriller titled IN THE JACKPOT, which was selected for the inaugural Sundance Producers Intensive, as well as The Gotham Week Project Forum in 2022.

Beyond directorial work, Osborn has edited acclaimed music videos for artists such as Mitski, Beach House, and Perfume Genius, and co-produced LACE CRATER, Harrison Atkins’ feature debut, which premiered at TIFF in 2015.

For ten years, Osborn has hosted D E E P, a traveling screening series of new experimental cinema unearthed from the dark parts of the internet, at microcinemas and DIY spaces throughout the US and Europe. D E E P is presented in partnership with MEMORY.

In 2019, Osborn was invited to International Film Festival Rotterdam as a guest programmer, curating a special slate of films about memes and other moving images on social media. They also served on the Shorts Jury for Sheffield Doc/Fest later that year.

Osborn’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Vice, and Talkhouse, and received honors from Sundance Institute, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and ScreenCraft.

They were born and raised in Portland, Oregon.

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