“Like Claire Cook says, if plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.”
Chris Kamen
Head of Business Affairs
Snapshot
Career hero
Byron Kennedy, legendary maverick producer of the first two Mad Max movies plus Aussie TV drama classics, now honoured by the eponymous ACTAA award for ‘outstanding creative enterprise’
Little-known fact
Chris has put on a show his whole life, staging lounge room variety shows as a kid and hitting the airwaves as Australia’s youngest radio DJ at eight
Plan B
Earn his pilot’s licence and become a location scout for remote outback film shoots
About Chris
The newest member of the Media Stockade family, Chris heads up business affairs and is on a mission to expand our production capacity. With 20+ years in the film industry, Chris’s remarkably broad skillset spans film and TV production, distribution, marketing, impact, business affairs and legal. In 2022 his feature documentary Franklin launched at the Melbourne International Film Festival, was nominated for Best Documentary at the AACTA and Walkley Awards, and went on to become the second highest-grossing Australian theatrical documentary for the year. Chris pioneered crowdfunding and self-distribution methods on several feature-length documentaries, including Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2011), Small is Beautiful (2015) and Vitamania (2018).
Selected awards
2022 | Nominated for Best Documentary, Walkley Awards
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2022 | Nominated for Best Documentary, AACTA Awards
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2022 | Nominated for Best Documentary, Walkley Awards 〰️ 2022 | Nominated for Best Documentary, AACTA Awards 〰️