Chel White

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chel White
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	May 30, 1959(1959-05-30)
Age	65
Birthplace	Kansas City
Country	United States
Birth City	Missouri
Horoscope	Taurus

Chel White Biography

Chel White is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on May 30, 1959 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Chel White (born May 30 1959) is an American film director, producer of films commercial director composer, screenwriter and supervisor of visual effects. He is the co-founder of the production company international Bent Image Lab in Portland, Oregon, along with co-founders Ray Di Carlo and David Daniels.

In the field of commission works, Chel White has directed music videos for Radiohead’s lead vocalist Thom Yorke, The Melvins, Tom Brosseau, Chrysta Bell, and David Lynch, and collaborated with the Oregon Symphony. He has been involved in numerous projects together with Academy Award nominated film director Gus Van Sant, creating visual effects for several of Van Sant’s films. White began filming commercials in the late 1990s and began directing television shows in the early 2000s, which included two parodies of Saturday Night Live.

In the realm of television, White directed two shorts for NBC’s Saturday Night Live for Robert Smigel’s Saturday TV Funhouse, The Narrator That Ruined Christmas (season 27, episode 9) and Blue Christmas (season 30, episode 8). Both are parodies of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer television special (1964). Airing first on December 15, 2001, The Narrator That Ruined Christmas was written by Robert Smigel, Michael Gordon, Louis CK and Stephen Colbert, with the voices of SNL cast members Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Doug Dale, and Robert Smigel. Airing first on December 18, 2004, shortly after U.S. president George W. Bush’s re-election, Blue Christmas was written by Robert Smigel and Michelle Saks Smigel with additional material by Rich Blomquist, Stephen Colbert, Scott Jacobson, and Matt O’Brien, and voices by Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Erik Bergmann, and Robert Smigel. In the early 2000s, Chel White directed two stop motion animated children’s television specials for Hallmark Channel. In reviewing the 2011 television holiday programs, Mike Hale of The New York Times called Jingle All the Way (TV special) “By far the best of the bunch. In addition to its charming art and pleasantly low-key storytelling, ‘Jingle’ stands apart from the other holiday programs by not focusing on the manufacturing or delivery of toys.” Hale also mentions, “For some honest emotion, and a combination of retro holiday spirit with adventurous animation, tune in for Jingle All the Way…(it) looks like something you’d see at a European animation festival or late at night on Adult Swim, but it is also gentle…”

White’s films have screened in the Van Gogh Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The High Museum in Atlanta. His retrospective presentations include the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2002), Southern Circuit (2002), the Austin Film Society (2003), The Humboldt Film Festival (2004), a 20-year career retrospective at the Northwest Film Center (in the Portland Art Museum) (2012), and a Bent Image Lab retrospective and masterclass at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (2018). Chel White is the recipient of media arts Fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation The Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland Oregon, and project grants from Creative Capital, the Pacific Pioneer Fund and the Oregon Arts Commission. Fever Dreams and Heavenly Nightmares, a DVD compilation of Chel White’s short independent films, was released in 2006 and distributed by Microcinema International.

Chel White began his career as a professional in 1986. He worked as animator at Jim Blashfield and Associates (Portland, Oregon) on music videos for Paul Simon, Tears for Fears and Michael Jackson. From 1991 onwards, he started making visual effects for director Gus Van Sant, starting with My Own Private Idaho (1991). White became the Visual Effects Supervisor for Van Sant’s Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1993), Paranoid Park (2007), First Kiss (2007), Milk (2008) and Restless (2011) and Restless (2011) along with The “death eye sequence” for To Die For, visual effects supervisor and title designer for Dustin Lance’s Virginia and title effects supervisor for the director Todd Haynes’ film, I’m Not There.

Chel White Net Worth

Chel White is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chel White 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1985 onward, Chel White has resided since 1985 in Portland, Oregon.

Chel White started making independently-produced short films following college. She began with an animation that was drawn on film called Metal Dogs of India (1985). It was in the year 1991 that White made Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha) the animated film made entirely using the unique capabilities of photography of a photocopier. It produced images of faces, hands and various body parts. The film is widely recognized as to be the first notable animated film that utilized this technique. The Washington Post describes it as “(a) musical frolic which wittily builds on ghostly, distorted images crossing the plate glass of a copier.” The subsequent films comprise Dirt (1998), Soulmate (2000), Passage (2001), Magda (2004) A Hurrying Glimpse into The Process of Writing in Writing Process in Less Than 60 seconds (2005), Wind (2007) and a Donald Trump horror film parody named Little Donnie (2017), and Dreams of a Fallen Astronaut (2019) is part of Joan Gratz’s book The One Minute Memoir.

As an actor, Chel White had a role in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), playing a brain surgeon in a scene with Uma Thurman.

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In 2012, White directed a video for Chrysta Bell & David Lynch to the song Bird of Flames from the album This Train. It has been described as “a haunting and surreal vision.”

Facts & Trivia

Chel Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chel White celebrates birthday on May 30 of every year.

The Austin Chronicle says, “(Chel White’s) work seems to dispatch itself in some secret, subversive code, flashing messages amid animation, obscure stock footage, and actors with crazy eyes.” Chale Nafus of the Austin Film Society says, “I have been amazed at the stylistic and thematic diversity in (Chel White’s) films. Surreal, ethereal, wistful, and witty are some of the descriptions that come to mind. Mainly I just allow my imagination to be taken into his complex, mysterious worlds.”