Screenwriter / writer-director · Atlanta

ChristopherShank.

Different stories.
Same handwriting.

I write about people trying to fix what can’t be fixed.

Work / scripts

Selected work.

A starting point across features and shorts.

Full slate
09 / FEATURE

KING OF THE DEAD

A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.

01 / FEATURE

NOBODY LEAVES

Still carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.

05 / FEATURE

SOULECHO

In the near future, a grieving husband uses an AI service to reconstruct his dead wife, but when the model reveals she may have been planning to leave him, he must choose between preserving the version he needs and accepting the woman he never fully knew.

06 / FEATURE

MILES APART

A struggling husband runs the Honolulu Marathon beside the wife who plans to leave him, hoping 26.2 miles can save their marriage before the finish line becomes the end.

16 / SHORT

ME, THE DOG, AND THE DARK FOG

A suicidal man’s carefully planned final night is ruined when his ex-wife drops off a tiny dog — and the little bastard refuses to let him die.

Across genres

The voice
stays the same.

Horror when the truth is not enough. Comedy when it is too much. Drama when it lands where it lands.

Somebody carrying a problem that won’t be solved — and going at it anyway. Badly. Stubbornly. Right at the point where the story they’ve been telling about their life stops holding weight.

Blunt, observant, and darkly funny. Sensitive without sentimentality.

About

Journal

Essays and notes.

All entries

11 selected
placements.

Festival, competition, and fellowship recognition across the slate.

Night road seen through a car windshield

In development / short film

Keep Driving

On the anniversary of his daughter’s death, a grieving rideshare driver accepts a lucrative fare to the middle of nowhere, only to discover that his strange passenger may not be human—and needs him to reach a rendezvous before midnight.

  • SCRIPT LOCKED
  • IN DEVELOPMENT
  • ATLANTA, GEORGIA
The film

Script requests. Assignments. Development. Directing. Press.

Contact.