As a documentary film editor, Chris Perkel is best known for shaping over 1200 hours of footage into Pearl Jam Twenty, Academy Award-winning director Cameron Crowe's definitive portrait of the seminal Seattle band.  The film debuted at The Toronto Film Festival and will screen theatrically before its television premier on American Masters.  Other notable films include the Grammy-nominated Johnny Cash's America, and The Cool School, which won Best Documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival before premiering on PBS's Independent Lens.  His most recent project is The Real Rocky, an ESPN film borne from the Peabody-Award winning series 30 for 30.

As a director, Chris helmed the critically-acclaimed documentary feature The Town That Was, a film USA Today described as "haunting in Twilight Zone fashion... unforgettable."  More recently, he developed and directed a presentation pilot for The Sundance Channel about urban artists he grew up with in the Bronx.  Currently he is in production directing a film for the United Nations about international census workers, a project that will take him to Cuba, Belarus, The Occupied Palestinian Territories, The Ivory Coast, and Indonesia.