Chris Gutierrez(II)

Chris began his first responder career as an EMT and paramedic in South Central Los Angeles during the height of the gang wars between the Crips and Bloods. Following the LA civil unrest in 1992, Chris befriended OG gang member and author Kody Scott who wrote "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member." Scott urged Chris to start a writing career of his own as a means to make extra money. Chris chose screenwriting as his medium and sold his first script, Stay of Execution, to a Hollywood production company in 1997. His follow up script, Hustlers, which later became Bridge to Nowhere was sold in 1999 but languished in development for nearly eight years before it went into production in 2007. Disenchanted by the slow process of Hollywood, Chris attended film school at UCLA Extension and began working on films and television shows as a crewmember to learn more about filmmaking. He started in the set lighting department at Paramount Pictures working his way from the lamp dock onto the rigging crew of the TV series, Star Trek: Voyager. It was there that Chris learned of the position "Set Medic" and an unintended career was born.

Chris divides his time between Los Angeles and New Mexico where he has homes, and is involved with the indie film scene in both cities producing film shorts, music videos and experimental productions in between mainstream gigs.