Biography
Chris Bowman is an American screenwriter and director. He is best known for writing A Minecraft Movie (2025), Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016), Masterminds (2016), and the Oscar-nominated short film Ninety-Five Senses (2022), all with frequent collaborator Hubbel Palmer. Bowman made his directorial debut in 2007 with American Fork (aka Humble Pie).
Complete Filmography
A Minecraft Movie
2025
Story, Screenplay
Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre...
Ninety-Five Senses
2022
Writer
A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016
Screenplay
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his...
Masterminds
2016
Writer
A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.
The Stubborn Donkey
2008
Thanks
When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But t...
The Dirty Digger
2007
Editor
Director Paul Graham Scott joins a controversial Glasgow magazine, The Digger, as its court photographer naming and shaming gangsters, petty criminals...
Humble Pie
2007
Director
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people ...
Paw
2003
Writer
A man and woman discover a severed bear's paw in a park and it unearths dark thoughts and strange perversions.