Sharing a birthday with Alfred Hitchcock, feature film and television director Chuck Griffith, also a native Californian, claims his more formidable years were during his high school days in Iowa. Even at age 16, Griffith was already establishing his directing career by forming his own theater company and directing community theater. After studying in college, Griffith moved to San Francisco to work for Macworld Magazine, but soon started producing interactive projects on his own. Over the course of the ".com" bubble in 1997, Griffith founded Griffopolis, an Atlanta-based web design firm that was later acquired by Blink Interactive in 1999.

While in Atlanta , Griffith met feature film director and collaborator, Lou Peterson. The two would go on to produce a reality TV show pilot called, "Gay Playa" in 2005. (Peterson recently featured a Handy Kaufmans song, "Wish You Were Dead" in his erotic thriller, "In The Blood").

After directing three short films by 2000, Griffith won several awards around the world with his short film, "Safe Sex", a film about a serial killer finding prey in New York gay bars. Griffith also studied television directing on the set of "Six Feet Under" while Kathy Bates was helming an episode in 2001.

By May of 2001 and living in Hollywood, Griffith went on to direct and co-write the feature film "Thank You, Good Night" a story about fictional New Jersey rockers, The Handy Kaufmans, setting out for a tour and learning more about adulthood in the process. Griffith partnered with Emmy-Winning Producer Robert Zimmer and Deeper Magic Communications to produce the film with Executive Producer Scott Burkhardt (who Chuck worked with on "Safe Sex" and asked Scott to play a lead in the film). "Thank You, Good Night" starred Mark Hamill, Sally Kirkland, Nicole Eggert, J.P. Pitoc, Christian Campbell, Danny Wood, and Eddie Singletary. The film was released on DVD in August 2006, it included downloadable songs and director's commentary.

While the film won accolades from film festivals across the country (including a Jury Prize award in 2002), "Thank You, Good Night" sat on shelves for over four years until Griffith obtained distribution rights in 2006 through his privately held production company, Roaring Leo Productions, Inc. During the final re-cut of "Thank You, Good Night", Griffith had been an advertising executive producing projects for worldwide brands such as Kraft Foods, American Standard, Saturn, Microsoft, and Pokemon.

In 2006, Griffith decided to fully commit to his feature filmmaking goals in developing an action thriller entitled "A Lion's Wake", a trilogy about a lawyer turned assassin, and an independent gay-themed feature about the battle of art and commerce in Brooklyn named "Shifting the Canvas". He resides in New York City.

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