Danbury Native's Latest Movie Thriller Selected to Stream

‘Bigfoot: The Conspiracy,’ the latest movie by an international award-winning movie producer & director from Danbury, now streaming on Amazon Prime

DANBURY, CT - Chris Simoes, a Danbury native and international award-winning independent movie producer and director, has had his latest movie, “Bigfoot: The Conspiracy," selected for streaming on Amazon Prime.

"I started making movies for fun,” said Simoes, a 1988 Danbury High School graduate. “To see our work now on a global platform like Amazon Prime is thrilling."

Simoes, 50, directed and stars in this independent thriller, which follows his character, Dante, a retired border patrol agent, who discovers the possible existence of Bigfoot and the shroud of darkness that surrounds it. Unsure about what to do, Dante decides to do what he must to protect his family. He soon discovers even more complexities hidden in plain sight. Amazon is streaming the 77-minute movie in the U.S. and U.K. Simoes had Japanese subtitles added and is working with Amazon for a possible release in Japan to make it available to an even wider international audience.

Simoes has several years of experience in federal law enforcement, including 4 1/2 years as a border patrol agent. After an injury led to his untimely retirement, he began teaching himself film production. In 2014 he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature-length film, “Bigfoot: The Curse of Blood Mountain.”

“When I started making films, I knew ‘Bigfoot’ movies had a huge cult following,” said Simoes, who now lives in St. Augustine, Fla. “There are countless super low-budget films in the genre, and I felt like I could add a good one to the mix.”

Fortunately, the movie was well-received. It was named “Best Local Film" at the Southeastern International Film Festival 2015 and was named the official film of The Georgia Zombiefest. It also has more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.

The success of “Bigfoot: The Curse of Blood Mountain" prompted Simoes to produce and direct “Halfway to Hell,” a movie about a man who wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world full of survivors and killers and struggles to survive long enough to find his own identity. The movie attracted international acclaim, winning him the award for “Best Editing of a Feature Film” at the World Independent Cinema Awards in Milan, Italy in 2018. The movie has just under a million views on YouTube.