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Welcome to the official website of filmmaker Chris Eska. Please select a film: The Retrieval. August Evening. Doki-Doki.
Chris Eska was born on 14 June 1976 in Ottine, Gonzales County, Texas, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Retrieval (2013), August Evening (2007) and Doki-Doki (2003).
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- Writer, Director, Editor
- Ottine, Gonzales County, Texas, USA
- Chris Eska
Sep 4, 2008 · Director Chris Eska‘s “August Evening” revolves around an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, who have their lives thrown into...
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Apr 3, 2014 · Low-budget period indie films are rare in and of themselves, but to find one which inhabits the war-torn south with such authenticity and veracity as Chris Eska’s The Retrieval is rarer still. Set towards the end of the Civil War, the picture follows young Will (Ashton Sanders), a former slave.
1999 KUHT (PBS Houston) Series, The Territory. 1998 Texas Young Filmmaker’s Showcase. 1998 Russ Pittman Award for Artistic Merit. Works Screened at the Director’s Guild of America Theater, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Film Festivals worldwide.
Mar 31, 2014 · Writer-director Eska, who won the Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award for his previous feature “August Evening,” lets the drama unfold at a meditative pace.
May 15, 2014 · Chris Eska's moving 'The Retrieval' follows a teen boy (Ashton Sanders) as he tries to bring back a runaway slave (Tishuan Scott).
