Discipline: Film/Video

Christopher Wilcha

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
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Chris Wilcha won two Emmy awards and two International Documentary Association Awards for directing and co-executive producing a TV version of Ira Glass’ acclaimed radio show “This American Life” for Showtime. He has also directed promos, pilots and short films for MTV, PBS, Sundance Channel, and TV Land, including The Social History of the Mosh Pit, So Five Minutes Ago, and Second Hand Stories. Wilcha also directed and shot a first person video diary called The Target Shoots First, about his tenure in the marketing department at the mail order CD and tape club Columbia House in the early 1990’s. The Target Shoots First won numerous festival awards, screened internationally, and was broadcast on Cinemax and The Sundance Channel. In 2013, Chris Wilcha directed Another Day, Another Time, the Showtime documentary of the concert inspired by the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis. In 2015 Wilcha took a road trip across the country with renowned comedian Tig Notaro and made a documentary film for Showtime, Knock Knock It’s Tig Notaro. Chris has directed numerous commercial spots, including campaigns for companies such as Canon, Chevy, Visa, Ford, Talenti, Siemens, Comcast, Dick’s Sporting Goods, KIND, and Apple.

Studios

Irving Fine

Christopher Wilcha worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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