R. Christian Anderson

Christian was born in Los Angeles and raised in Hollywood. His passion for film came at an early age. His mother was a radio personality for station KMPC. He was performing on live radio in commercials by the age of 3. At the age of 9, his mother married Raymond D. Bowman, a jazz and classical music impresario and noted music critic who taught and encouraged Christian to write. At age 12 he met legendary dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis, who encouraged his love of art and shared her life and career with him. In 1969 Christian volunteered to serve in the United States Air Force where he was trained as an illustrator and designer. He created orientations and briefings with the 62nd Military Airlift Wing (MAC), where he was also a member of the base Honor Guard. He later worked on military training films with the Aerospace Audiovisual Service (MAC) and worked with one of the first units to produce films on video tape, rather than film stock. By 1973 he moved to San Francisco where he freelanced as a graphic designer, creating numerous posters, brochures, print ads and collateral materials over the next couple of decades. He lived in New York City in during the spring of 1984 and worked for a noted film manager on Times Square. During the 1990s he returned to college to obtain a degree in Multimedia and was then employed by two major advertising agencies in the San Diego area. He began freelancing as a writer and had several magazine articles on music and film published during this time. By the 2000s, he turned to ghost-writing screenplays before finally directing his first feature-length film "Defcon 2012" in 2008. He is also a composer and wrote the lyrics to the song "The Ghosts of San Francisco" (with music by John Thomas Bullock). The song was sung by Chris Clark for the feature film "When the World Came to San Francisco." The music video for the song won the "Mixed Genre Jazz Film Award" at the "New York Jazz Film Festival" in November 2016. He is married and lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He continues to write, compose, and direct films. He is a member of ASCAP.