Chris Kousouros
Documentary Film Crew
What Took You So Long?
New York, NY, USA
Before joining What Took You So Long, Chris worked for three years in genocide and mass atrocity prevention, specifically targeting mid-high level government officials for training in atrocity prevention, transitional justice, humanitarian aid, and international humanitarian law. He helped launch and then managed the first ever regional governmental network dedicated to genocide and mass atrocity prevention in Latin America. This Network of 18 Latin American states committed to implementing genocide prevention education into their respective mandatory training programs for government officials. Chris planned and orchestrated regional training seminars in Auschwitz, Poland and Buenos Aires, Argentina providing government officials with genocide and mass atrocity prevention training. He has extensive experience in communicating at all levels with foreign governments, INGOs, and grassroots level CSOs.
Chris Kousouros made his transition to filmmaking from genocide prevention with the hopes of addressing these global issues with visual products instead of cabinet meetings. A member of What Took You So Long? since December 2014, he has worked on films on 4 continents, making his Africa debut in Mogadishu, where he played a key role in creating a documentary on Somalia’s constitutional review process. A human rights worker at heart, Chris is dedicated to using film as a catalyst for positive change on a global scale. His latest project, Waynak, reflects a partnership between What Took You So Long? and MakeSense to create positive solution based media surrounding the migrant crisis. The web-series has its own online platform that links viewers directly to the projects profiled in each episode as well as others, in the hopes of bridging the gap between content and concrete action. Distribution partners include HuffPost USA, UNHCR, Courier International, and others.
- Audio capture
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing