Chris Hoffert is an Army combat veteran with over twenty years of personal study and research on the Little Big Horn battle and is an award-winning director with over 15 years of film experience. He is also a Custer Battlefield Preservation Committee lifetime member and maintains membership with the Little Big Horn Associates. Chris frequently engages with other authors, historians, and battle students online to keep history relevant and alive while furthering more in-depth discussions into one of the most ambiguous battles of all time. Serving as the videographer for the U.S. Cavalry School for over seven years, Chris is heavily entangled in the Little Big Horn history. He spends several weeks each year at the battlefield with period reenactors conducting filming designed to bring history to life in a way that books simply cannot.
Chris’s digital animations, 3D terrain analysis, and film work on the battle are designed to help usher historical research into the modern era by allowing students of the battle the ability to see things in a way that has never been done before. This interest in animation and 3D design began while working on the documentary ‘Contested Ground’ where Chris created moving maps of the entire battle to accompany the narrative video. This has since progressed into timeline analysis videos and full 3D modeling of the battlefield. Chris graduated Cum Laude from the Academy of Art University, receiving a B.F.A. and an A.A. in motion pictures and television. David Worth, a Hollywood director, author, and professor heralded Chris as “The Sergio Leone of Montana” for his ability to churn out quality gritty period films on micro-budgets.
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