Chris King is a multi-award winning filmmaker and three-time Emmy nominated television writer/producer. He began his film and television studies at California State University, Long Beach. After completing his B.A., he worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment as a material writer and researcher. Simultaneously, Chris worked as a freelance scriptwriter. His feature-length screenplays have garnered national attention in The Nicholl Fellowship, the Chesterfield Film Project, Fade In Magazine, and HBO’s Project Greenlight.

His feature-length film Touching Down received numerous film festival awards and nominations, including both Best Picture and Audience Awards at the Sacramento Intl Film & Music Festival, Best Actress and Best Breakout Performance nominations for his lead actress at the Method Fest Film Festival, and the Bronze REMI Award at WorldFest-Houston.

His first short film Awakening played such festivals as Gloria International, Spiritual Cinema Festival at Sea, and the European Spiritual Film Festival. It was picked up for world distribution by The Spiritual Cinema Circle and has played in over 70 countries. Stephen Simon, producer of the Oscar-winning film What Dreams May Come, calls Awakening “A fascinating, moving and poignant film.”

Life is Chris’s second short film that he also turned into a series of public service announcements. These PSAs, about the Baby Safe Surrender Law, have played to millions of viewers in California. The Sacramento Metro Fire Department credits these PSAs for helping to save at least two newborns from “death by dumpster”. Chris received an Emmy Nomination for his work, and the PSAs have since been used by Project Cuddle (featured on Oprah) and the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe awarded Chris a special citation for his work on the Life PSAs and for Watermark Films’ contribution to saving babies in California.

Rachel is another short film and is currently enjoying a wonderfully successful film festival run. Rachel was chosen as 1 of just 12 films from 43 countries to represent short cinema in The Manhattan Short Film Festival. Rachel played in over 22 countries in 116 cities around the world. Rachel was also an Official Selection for the prestigious L.A. ShortsFest, River’s Edge Film Festival, Sacramento Intl Film & Music Festival, VisionFest ’08, Temecula Valley Intl Film Festival, and Raindance Film Festival in London.

Chris is currently in post-production on another short film called The Killing of Mary Surratt, and has two more films in pre-production. He resides in Rocklin, California with Co-Producer and wife Heather and their two daughters.

Heather King has been co-writing and co-producing films since Watermark’s first film, Touching Down. From costumes to craft services to watching the kiddos on shoot days with no baby sitters, she has her hand in all aspects of production. She began with proofing and editing Chris’ screenplays, and moved into co-writing (her favorite aspect) with Awakening and Rachel.

“This journey into the world of film has been so unexpected, and so fun. There’s a certain magic that happens on shoot days that thrills me each time. I don’t know that I’ll ever tire of being with a dedicated group of talented artists and technicians working in sync to make something bigger than themselves, all for the love of film. Chris has his hands full as the director/producer, so I serve as back-up eyes and ears – I joke that my official role on set is ‘sleeve tugger’.

My favorite part of the film process though is writing with Chris. He’s the story-guy who writes the first draft, then we hunker down on the couch after the girls are in bed and go through the script line by line. Late nights, but great memories.”

Heather holds a MA degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She also completed post-graduate studies in Counseling Psychology and Soul-Centered Leadership (www.universityofsantamonica.edu - amazing!).

Post-graduation, Heather established the intention to help people worldwide live connected, soul-centered lives. “It is my hope that our films will spark discussions that help people connect to each other in deeper-than-everyday ways, as well as help people connect to some of their own emotions that they may not touch into in their daily lives. I’m also very excited about another film project that we have coming up that will help people connect with themselves and their families more directly and more personally in ways that will have long-lasting and far-reaching impacts. Stay tuned for details!”