Chris Parizo is an award-winning professional screenwriter. Managed by Bellevue Management and represented by Independent Artist Group. His work has been featured in Deadline Hollywood, Variety, IndieWire, and Vanity Fair. He programs the Slamdance Film Festival in Los Angeles, California.
His first script The End of the Stars placed in the Top 50 of The Academy’s 2016 Nicholl Fellowship and has since been adapted into a YA novel. His spec script Mutt, based on skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen, trended on the Black List website and led to his Hollywood representation. His biopic script Viceland, the story of three homeless punks from Montreal who went on to create the multibillion-dollar news empire VICE, appeared on the 2020 Annual Black List, followed by 2023 Black List script Kazan, which chronicled the friendship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller and their mutual love interest Marilyn Monroe.
Most recently, Parizo wrote the screenplay for the feature biopic of America's Got Talent Season 19 winner Richard Goodall, the Indiana school janitor whose viral performance launched him to national stardom. The film was announced by Deadline Hollywood and CNBC in 2026.
Parizo has collaborated and/or developed projects with major production companies and industry figures including Legendary Films, Kenny Ortega (High School Musical), Baha Productions, PlayStation Studios' Janet Lee, Andy Horwitz (American Hustle), Silk Road, Ben Everard, John Krasinski, CJ Entertainment, Oscar winner Andrew Lazar (American Sniper), Nick Jonas, Jane’s Addiction, Sugar23, and the late, great Richard Donner.
