Chris
Durrance
Producer/Director, Seven One Eight Studios
Chris Durrance is an award-winning filmmaker, who most recently directed a major PBS series, Caregiving. Chris has also directed the PBS series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015) and The Gene: An Intimate History (2020), and together with Barak Goodman he directed Slay the Dragon, an in-depth report on gerrymandering that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, Durrance has worked on more than a dozen films for PBS Frontline, including College Inc. about for-profit education, The Madoff Affair, and Return of the Taliban and three presidential biographies, on Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He has worked all over the world, including Europe, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and China, and is the winner of a Peabody, two Emmys, a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and an Overseas Press Club award. He is the founder of Seven One Eight Studios.
