CHRISTOPHER COPPOLA has completed eight feature motion pictures. His most recent project, The Creature of the Sunny Side-Up Trailer Park (a.k.a. Bloodhead), had its world premiere during the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and has since screened at the following festivals in 2004: Jacksonville, Guerrilla Fest in Washington D.C, Santa Cruz, San Jose’s Cinequest, San Francisco’s Indie Horror Fest-Hole in the Head, Albuquerque’s Digi-Fest Southwest Film Festival, Chicago Indie Fest, and most recently Germany’s Oldenburg Film Festival. The film stars screen legends Frank Gorshin and Shirley Jones, and television icons Lynda Carter and Bernie Kopell.

Coppola’s other film credits include the Trimark Pictures release Deadfall (1993) starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Biehn, and James Coburn; Gunfighter (1998) starring Martin Sheen, Robert Carradine, and Clu Gulager; Palmer’s Pick-Up: An American Roadshow Odyssey (1999) starring Robert Carradine and Rosanna Arquette; Dracula’s Widow (1989) which he produced for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group; G-Men From Hell (2000) starring William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, and Gary Busey; Bel-Air (2000) starring Charles Fleischer and Barbara Bain; and Clockmaker (1998), a children’s fantasy film shot on location in Romania for Kuschner-Locke.

Coppola is co-founder and spokesperson for the mother company of PlasterCITY Productions and PlasterCITY Digital Post. PlasterCITY Productions is an independent feature and television production company that concentrates on HD digital format. PlasterCITY’s feature projects produced in digital format, otherwise known as “digi-flicks,” include The Creature of the Sunny Side-Up Trailer Park and Bel-Air. PlasterCITY Digital Post is a post-production facility that specializes in editing and onlining for feature films, television, shorts, commercials, and music videos.

For television, Coppola is currently developing a new reality show in association with The Tom Lynch Co., entitled “Real Life.” The show will be a half hour docu-dramedy that follows the lives of three disparate American high school students, in three different neighborhoods, and through their eyes capture the real essence of today's teenager. Coppola’s other television work includes writing and directing numerous episodes of “America’s Most Wanted” for Fox Television, “Bonechillers,” which he directed for ABC, “The Journey of Allen Strange” and “100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd,” two children programs he directed for Nickelodeon, as well as Disney’s hit show “The Magic Jersey.”

Coppola is a Director’s Guild of America (DGA) member and frequently speaks at public forums on independent filmmaking and HD digital technology.

Coppola studied music composition at Redlands University, where he received the prestigious California Arts Council Award for his opera “Plato’s Cave,” and for his clarinet quintet “Reverie.” He then went on to study film at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he completed four student films before he graduated in 1987.

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