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Chris + Em Chris directs CINEMA PURGATORIO, Folly Beach SC \ 2013 Emily \ 2009 Chris White at Phoenix Comico for Star Trek Continues \ 2013 Emily speaks to TEDxGreenville \ 2013 Emily (photo by Chris White) \ 2013 Chris on the set of GET BETTER \ 2011 Chris + Emily on the set of TAKEN IN \ 2011 ED The Movie Premier (John Riser and Chris White) \ 1986 Grad School Emily \ 2004 Emily Reach White “Handmade films for friends” is a fair description of what we do…“artistically ambitious, not cynical” is too. We’re a married couple that lives in Greenville, South Carolina and makes movies.

CINEMA PURGATORIO is our latest one. We wrote the screenplay in a month last year, then collaborated with our friend Geoffrey Gunn to make it better. The film explores many actual fears and frustrations we’ve experienced as filmmakers. In it, we poke fun at ourselves…and many real people and situations we’ve encountered making movies in the past three years.

CINEMA PURGATORIO is part show-biz comedy, part “golden fleece” story. And it’s 100% our story…a film we hope will provide encouragement to entrepreneurs (creative or otherwise), married couples, and independent filmmakers everywhere.

Oh. And laughs. We hope you think our film is funny. It is a comedy, after all.

GET BETTER is our most recent feature. We made TAKEN IN, too. There are funny things in these films, but they’re not really comedies.

Chris White on IMDb \ Emily Reach White on IMDb

PRESS INQUIRIES: Lisa Iannucci at email@example.com

Listen to a conversation with CINEMA PURGATORIO screenwriters Chris White + Emily Reach White and Geoffrey Gunn, and download the full screenplay.