Professional Summary

Chris Wilmot's Companies:

How Town Film Productions, LLC

Chris, the majority owner of How Town Films, is the Producer and Executive Producer of a full-length feature film entitled, "LUCKY", due for world-wide release in 2012. The movie portrays a 10 year-old South African boy named Lucky, who is forced to leave the familiarity of his Zulu village to go to the big city.  He tries to stay with an uncle who does not care for him, so he attempts to befriend an elderly Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans.  She slowly grows fond of Lucky, and together they develop an unlikely bond, which leads to a potentially promising and unexpected future.

Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence, and, ultimately, belonging, LUCKY shows how a child’s spirit can bring out decency, humility and even love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa.

LUCKY is graced with stunning, beautiful cinematography, and is ultimately a touching story of hopes, dreams, misconceptions and parental love. During a November 2010 test screening in Rochester, 93% of respondents rated the movie as excellent or very good, and 89% said they would likely recommend this film to friends.

LUCKY has screened at nearly a dozen international film festivals in 2011 and 2012, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Busan, South Korea, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Boulder, Colorado, and Hong Kong, to name but a few. LUCKY won the Best Actress Award in Abu Dhabi, and garnered the Best Film Award in Bangalore, India. Learn more

Rochester's SmugtownBeacon.com

Chris is a co-owner, publisher, and bi-weekly columnist for this popular Rochester-based political watchdog publication. He passionately writes about local news and politics from an insider's perspective. Chris and his co-publisher, Aaron E. Wicks, began this online magazine in late 2007, with the intention of filling in where mainstream media outlets leave off. Chris and Aaron are unafraid to write about the metaphoric elephant in the middle of the room. Check out SmugtownBeacon.com.

Endless Wave Productions, LLC

Chris co-owned and operated X- Dreams Skate Park, an indoor skateboard and BMX bike park, with jumps and a half-pipe in 2003-2004 in Brighton, NY. During its time, X- Dreams was the largest indoor skate park in the U.S.! Chris sold his interest in 2004 to his partners.

Today, Endless Wave Marketing is an online marketing consultancy, helping small business owners improve their web presence and grow their business using innovative online marketing strategies.

Rochester Lancers Professional Indoor Soccer

Chris and Salvatore "Soccer Sam" Fantauzzo (of Salvatore's Pizza fame) are reviving the old NASL Rochester Lancers brand name, transforming what was an outdoor team, into a brand new indoor pro soccer team, in November 2011. Games will be played in the Blue Cross Arena. The new Indoor Lancers soccer team will play 12 home games and 12 away games.

Indoor soccer is a high scoring, fast paced game, played in a hockey sized field, with glass & boards. Rochester, AKA "Soccer Town U.S.A." will now have professional indoor soccer games in the winter, when families are hungry for entertainment. We hope to see you at our home opener! Learn more

Galaxy West Incorporated

Galaxy West, Inc. is a holding company in which Chris has a majority interest. Galaxy West is a limited partner in a casino development and management company with properties in Oklahoma and Northern California; also owns 50% of the Smugtown Beacon.com, an on-line news and opinion magazine, founded by Chris and his 50% partner Aaron Wicks in 2007.  Chris also writes for Smugtown Beacon.com.; Finally, Galaxy West owns interest in three feature length motion pictures; "Lost" (2004), starring Dean Cain; "Jam" (2006), starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Alex Rocco (Moe Green from the "Godfather"); and "Lucky" (2011), a South African film, now making the film festival circuit.

Western World Holding Corporation

Chris is the majority owner and managing member of the W.W.H. Corp., which in turn owns 50% of Endless Wave Productions, LLC (an internet, web based marketing company he owns with his life partner, Kathy Goll); a majority interest in the 'new' Rochester Lancers professional indoor soccer team; and a significant interest in Lorax, a renewable energy company.