Chris Kekaniokalani Bright is a screenwriter born and raised on Oʻahu, Hawaii. After attending Kamehameha Schools for thirteen years, Chris went on to study film and music at Chapman University. He worked in production at Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2014-2017, and has been writing several film projects since, to include CONVICTION, which made the 2018 Black List and has been sold to Warner Brothers, and the live-action version of LILO & STITCH, which will be released in 2025.