
Christopher Racster (Producer)
An award winning Indie film producer, Racster is partner in Mythgarden, a film and television production company specializing in Gay and Lesbian content and runs his own company Archer Productions, Ltd. in Los Angeles, California. Racster's film Say Uncle, written and directed by Peter Paige is the most recent project to come to fruition. It follows Racster's short film Little Black Boot (sponsored by Power-Up), which debuted at Sundance 2004 and won the Planet Out Award for Best Gay Short Film in 2004. Also under the Archer shingle is April's Shower, Trish Doolan's award winning, festival favorite feature film distributed by here!, The Bug In My Ear and The Handkerchief.
In October 2003, Racster paired with long time friends Robert Gant (Queer as Folk) and Chad Allen (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman), to launch Mythgarden, a production company specializing in quality gay an lesbian content for television, stage and film. Their first project is a Craig Chester script, Save Me and in development is an anthology of short films consisting of Fairy Tales retold for gay men.
Prior to moving his company Archer Productions Ltd. into film, Racster was Senior Vice President of BWR Public Relations, a large Entertainment PR firm based in Los Angeles and New York. Racster ran his own division handling marketing, branding, events and public relations for international corporations such as BMW, Qantas Airways, Ketel One Vodka, Nike's Brand Jordan and RealNetworks among others.
Racster came to BWR from his position at Spelling Entertainment website AsSeenIn.com where he was Executive Director of Marketing, PR and Advertising. A revolutionary infotainment platform, AsSeenIn.com served as a central fan site for dozens of productions such as Charmed, That 70's Show and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. While at AsSeenIn, Racster began as the Executive Director of the Production Resources Department, where he added over 200 new vendors. This lead to a new role overseeing that department and assuming additional duties as head of Marketing, PR and Advertising. In his term at AsSeenIn, Racster negotiated landmark joint-marketing plans with companies such as Ebay, AOL, Viacom and Carsey, Werner, Mandabach.
His career began in Hollywood as an event producer building charity events such as Divine Design for Project Angel Food into a nationally recognized multimillion-dollar fundraiser. This lead to long term contracts with GameWorks, opening their venues nationally, and MTV Networks, working on the live televised productions of the MTV Music Awards and productions of the MTV Movie Awards, Rock-N-Jock, Nickelodeon's Big Help and Kid's Choice Awards and VH1's Fashion Awards.
Over the years Racster has received numerous mentions and awards including listing in the International Who's Who directory and being named one of the 25 Most Influential People In California Fashion by California Apparel News. Community activities include membership in IFP, Power-Up and Corporate Sponsorship of OUTFEST and past participation on the development committee for Project Angel Food. Racster graduated with a degree in International Relations from The Ohio State University.