CJ Wallis

Circumference (2006)

• Selected from over 80 pitches to win a slot on the prestigious Canadian film contest Crazy 8s with challenges selected film-makers to create a short film entirely within 8 days, with a total budget of $800 and with a raw-footage restriction of 30 minutes total. The result is a 10-minute single shot film called Circumference,^[1] which involves many characters, location changes and times of year that all end up back at the same place it started. Wallis became the first filmmaker in the contest's eight-year history to complete and submit a short film and music video within the rules of the contest.

969 MTV/Razer (2006-2007)

• 969 was an hour long, Monday to Friday youth programming show on MTV
• Started as a junior producer responsible for 1 segment a week and within 3 months was directing the show and producing 3 segments a week.
• In 2007, the show won the Leo Award for Best Youth Programming.

Dead Hooker In A Trunk (2007-2010)

• Wallis was cast as Goody Two-Shoes in the Soska sister's film Dead Hooker in a Trunk and ended up additionally executing the majority of tasks on the production including camera operation, lighting, music & completing all post production and marketing for the film. Over two years, the film attracted the attention of top Hollywood talent and went on to win many festival and film-making awards and was ultimately purchased & distributed by IFC Films.

Last Flowers (2009)

• The William Morris Agency met with Wallis to discuss upcoming projects. Within a month of this meeting, Wallis was on the set of his second short film Last Flowers which starred frequent collaborator Joseph May and Sarah Slean. The short screened in festivals across the world and was nominated by the Leo Awards in the "Best Screenplay in a Short Drama" and "Best Actor in a Lead Role" categories.

American Mary (2009-2011)

• Produced, developed & marketed the film for two years in collaboration with the Soska sisters up until the two companies parted ways shortly before principal photography.

Nokia (2010)

• Nokia had Wallis create two projects shot completely with their cel-phones. The first was a one-minute short featuring Connor Stanhope shot on a Nokia N-8 cel-phone. Based off the success of the previous ad, Nokia sent Wallis to Miami to shoot the Transformers 3 premiere with Michael Bay and Tyrese using a C-7 model phone.

Jet Life Recordings (2011-2018)

• Jet Life manager Mousa Hamdan invited Wallis down to Los Angeles to film a Curren$y concert "Rock The Bells", after the show ended Curren$y broke his ankle a month before a 60-day tour featuring Method Man & Big K.R.I.T..
• The edit from the day "Trust Fall" featured marked the invention of embedding tweets-as-narrative and was radically different than previous vlog clips produced for the label. Shortly after, Wallis was named "President Of Jet Life Films" and invited onto The Smoker's Club tour.
• Wallis is responsible for most of the video, design & marketing for the label.
• Directed over 75+ music videos and 14 hours of film-quality documentary footage chronicling the day-to-day life of Curren$y & The Jets, most notably the JetFlix series which debuted on Pitchfork.^[2]

Revolver (2015)

• Curren$y recorded five records in one night over music produced by Wiz Khalifa producer Sledgren. Wallis wrote and produced an original short film which uses the music and the lyrics to craft an original crime film showing the darker side of New Orleans street life. The film is narrated by Fiend and features Cornerboy P, DJ Duffey, Mr Marcelo, Mousa Hamdan, TY, Young Juve and Lil Soulja Slim in co-starring roles.

BB (2014-2018)

• During limited off-time, Wallis wrote and produced the self-financed thriller "BB" which the film-maker intentionally selected first-time actors and performed the majority of the film's tasks himself.
• The film follows a hard-edged girl named Leah Lamont, played by Jennifer Mae, turns to the world of web-cam modelling to help her girlfriend get money for a plane ticket to Romania to see her ailing family while an obsessed fan named Hal Bowman, played by Kristian Hanson, is planning a surprise of his own.
• The film features a soundtrack including Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, B Real, Lil Wayne, Cornerboy P, Hayley Richman, Rykka, 3d Na'tee
• Synk Films has bought the US distribution rights and will be releasing the film in Spring 2018.

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much (2017-2018)

• The documentary explores how Texas math teacher Ted Slauson became adept at recording and memorizing prices of products featured on The Price Is Right since its inception in 1972, culminating in him helping a contestant place a perfect bid during a 2008 Showcase Showdown, and ending in one of the biggest controversies in game show history as covered by Time, Esquire, TMZ and more. The film features 36-year show producer Roger Dobkowitz and television legend Bob Barker. The film won "Best Documentary" at the Orlando Film Festival on October 25, 2017.^[3]
• The film was acquired by Gravitas Ventures ^[4] and will release the film worldwide on May 8, 2018 ^[5]

The Fiddling Horse (2018)

• A dark comedy about a woman named Leslie Heart who inherits a horse and, in an attempt to elevate her failing status within her high society circle, trains it to race while secretly executing a long-con with an ex celebrity jockey. Produced by Mallory Kennedy and CJ Wallis

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