Chris Mandia is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director, and veteran from
San Pedro, California. Serving two tours in Iraq as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps, including
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
and the
First Battle of Fallujah
The First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend or kill the perpetrators of the killing of four U.S. contractors in March 2004.
The chief ca ...
. Mandia has won numerous awards for his work and received a Jack Nicholson scholarship to attend the MFA program at the University of Southern California's film school. His short play, "Fighting a Fish" won the
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region VIII's competition in 2007 In 2010, he received an
Operation In Their Boots Operation In Their Boots (OITB) is a film fellowship launched by the In Their Boots division of Brave New Foundation. The OITB program, led by executive producer Richard Ray Perez, provided five Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with the opportunity to ...
fellowship and “Get Some,” a film he authored, was a
Cannes Film Festival selection. In 2012 he co-wrote the multimedia physical theatre piece, ''Trajectories: Transformations'' with Meron Langsner for Evet Arts. The piece was based on interviews with servicemen from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and was performed in Boston and Chicago.
Mandia is known for his work on
VET Tv, an
over-the-top (OTT) media service that specializes in producing and distributing
military comedy films
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
and
television series whose primary audience is the
military and
veteran community. VET Tv was founded by Donny O’Malley in June 2016 and is based in
San Diego, California.
Mandia currently serves as an English professor at
Lone Star College['https://www.lonestar.edu/english-dept-cyfair.htm] and
The University of Houston.
References
External links
Official websiteOperation In Their Boots promo
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Film directors from California
Living people
American male screenwriters
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)