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.
His debut script The End of the Stars, the story of a young girl who builds a rocket ship hoping it will bring her cancer stricken father home, placed in the Top 50 of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in 2016. His spec script Mutt, the story of skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen and his invention that revolutionized the sport, The Ollie, led to professional representation after trending on the Hollywood industry insider website Black List.
In 2020 Viceland, the story of three homeless punks from Montreal who went on to create the multibillion-dollar news empire VICE, appeared on the Annual Black List: a list of the best scripts of the year as voted on by development executives and producers. Kazan, chronicling the crumbling friendship between Hollywood director Elia Kazan and Broadway playwright Arthur Miller during the 1950's American Red Scare leading to their best works (On The Waterfront and The Crucible) did the same in 2023 .
Parizo recently wrote the screenplay for the feature biopic of America's Got Talent winner Richard Goodall, the Indiana middle school janitor whose viral performance launched him to national stardom. Deadline Hollywood and CNBC announced the film in 2026. Ben Everard (Lights Out, Way of the Warrior Kid) and Academy Award winner Andrew Lazar (10 Things I Hate About You, American Sniper, Nyad) are producing.
In the past, Parizo has collaborated with Kenny Ortega (High School Musical), Nick Jonas, Baha Productions, Jane’s Addiction, Andy Horwitz (American Hustle), Silk Road, Sugar23, and the late, great Richard Donner.
