Chris Kentis is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for the critically acclaimed feature film Open Water (2003), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Made without a crew for a budget of $120,000, the film went on to become one of the 20 most profitable low-budget movies of all time. Kentis also directed and edited the films Grind (1997) and Silent House (2011).
Survived the tsunami in Asia, along with his wife and child.
He and his wife Laura Lau managed to escape from the Thai resort island
of Phuket, where they were vacationing when the tsunamis hit Christmas
weekend, 2004.