This Killing Business: A Feature Film Case Study

There’s no business like this killing business… Federico Muchnik, a Boston based director and producer, who recently completed his feature film debut, This Killing Business, was a recent guest at Rule Boston’s Learning Lab Series, presenting a 2 hour case study on his experience developing, shooting, editing, and the currently in process effort to distribute [...]

Big Update on “Skunked”

It’s been a while since there’ve been any updates on “Skunked” the Marfa, Texas documentary profiling Jacob, the local shuffleboard champion. Today, my co-directors Laura Wagner, Merri Lisa Trigilio, and I have a bunch of news to share… 1) “Skunked” was recently accepted into the Dallas Video Fest on September 28th at the Dallas [...]

New DSLR Video Class

Been absent for awhile – busy moving the site to a new domain (man was that painfully time consuming, but no more chris-portal.com) and working on some film festival stuff (more news on that shortly) – but today I wanted to make people aware I’m officially jumping into the training ring with a videography [...]

MSN Everyday Champions Series

Over the last couple months I’ve been working with Rodale Inc., a health, fitness, and wellness content producer in New York, known most for publishing Men’s Health and Women’s Health magazines. Together, we produced a couple of episodes for Microsoft’s MSN-based “Everyday Champions” series on fitbie.com. The series profiles an inspirational, everyday individual who shares [...]