Christopher J. Keene is an entertainment lawyer and a producer of
documentary films.
Keene represents writers, directors, and producers, and advises
production companies, publishers, digital content creators, and media
financiers. Keene's producing credits include The Kid Stays in the
Picture and Chicago 10.
The Kid Stays in the Picture premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film
Festival and was an official selection at the 2002 Cannes Film
Festival, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation. The film
was released nationwide in the summer of 2002 by Focus Features and was
named one of the ten best films of the year by over 50 film critics in
the US. It was named Best Documentary of 2002 by the International
Press Academy (The Golden Satellite Award), the Boston Film Critics,
Seattle Film Critics, and Washington D.C. Film Critics.
Keene re-teamed with Academy Award-nominated director Brett Morgen to
produce the documentary feature Chicago 10. Chicago 10 opened the 2007
Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters around the world in
the spring and summer of 2008.
Keene started his career as a downtown Los Angeles litigator and an agent
trainee at Endeavor. He is a graduate of U.C.L.A. and Vanderbilt
University School of Law.
