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Chris Suchorsky entered the film world in 2003 with his award-winning documentary FAILURE. The 35-minute comedy documentary follows Suchorsky on his first attempt/failure at making a feature-length narrative film. The film toured the festival circuit in 2003/2004 and reached its biggest audience at the 2004 Phoenix Film Festival. FilmThreat described FAILURE as a “spectacular achievement” and gave the film 4 stars. The film reached worldwide exposure when Apple (those guys who make the iPod) took notice and profiled Suchorsky in the “Pro Section” of apple.com for his work with Final Cut Pro. After FAILURE, Chris worked on multiple projects including the music video “Kiss Catastrophe” for EPIC Recording artists THE DAMNWELLS, completed the short film THE PARK and worked on the History Channel’s series DEEP SEA DETECTIVES and WEIRD, US. In March of 2005, Suchorsky began work on his first feature-length documentary entitled GOLDEN DAYS. The film follows the ups and downs of a Brooklyn-based indie rock band (The Damnwells) over a five-year period, as they go from struggling indie artists to major recording artists and back to struggling artists again. In 2005, while filming GOLDEN DAYS, Chris’s first film FAILURE was acquired by IFC (Independent Film Channel). The deal was finalized after six months of paperwork, 247 hrs of sound editing and a mild nervous break down. What did Chris learn from that experience? Get your film in order before you try and sell it. This past Spring, Chris’s first feature-length documentary GOLDEN DAYS premiered at the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival where it won the award for Best Documentary. Since then, the film has been invited to screen at festivals around the world including the Waterfront Film Festival (named one of the TOP FIVE Film Festivals by SAG), the Sheffield Doc/Fest (called “the Best Documentary Film Festival in Europe” by the BBC’s Nick Frasier) and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The film has garnered a number of four-star reviews including one from FilmThreat, which called the film “a fine example of art meeting capitalism.” Harp Magazine called the film “a fascinating glimpse into the fabled but ubiquitous major label hell.” Chris currently lives in Princeton, NJ and continues to work in advertising and television as a freelance Director, Editor and Multimedia Artist. |
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