In 1979, newly married Bruce and Alice Marshall left Bayonne, NJ in search of a small, quiet town in the South. They found Clinton, SC. In 1980, their son Christopher Paul Marshall was born. Shaped by Nintendo, legos and farm life, he grew up cultivating a strong imagination an desire to be creative. He has also always had a great love for the game of soccer. His Sophomore year of high school, he was part of Clinton High's first ever soccer team and was voted an All-Region player three years in a row. During his studies at the University of South Carolina, he attended the South Carolina Honors College which allowed him to explore a wide range of subjects from the Mississippi Blues to anthropological studies of World cultures. With an awareness of human struggle and contemporary issues he wrote and directed Gemini Friday, his first 16mm film. The story centered around a teenage girl who was cloned for the purposes of organ donation and earned the film awards for Best Screenplay and Best Directing in school's student film festival, MediaFest. Upon graduation he received the Porter A. McLaurin Media Arts Award for his achievements in the Media Arts department.

After two summers working as a production assistant on New York Feature films like Swimfan, Chris decided he could not be just another cog in the Studio film machine; he had to learn the to be an independent filmmaker and an artist. Through his studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the experience of directing his first independent feature film, PEZheads the Movie, he has begun to speak to the world through film. “You cannot Seperate life and art. They are essential for understanding each other. That’s why i can’t just ‘make movies.' I want to facilitate the evolution of our thoughts so we are better equipped to relate to our world, our God and our neighbors.”