Who We Are
Founded by Khris Baxter, Lost Mountain is an homage to the mountain by the same name located near our office in the Virginia Piedmont. But it also implies something else, something elusive and mysterious, like the wonderful stories we doggedly search for and seek to bring to life, many of which are often shrouded in fog and just beyond the next ridge, but well worth the journey.
Lost Mountain Entertainment was established on the principle that the best stories are universal. We are an East Coast development company, which is similar in concept to a production company. We develop original and adapted material, either in-house or in partnership with authors and screenwriters, then package and market these projects for the big and small screen. We focus primarily on scripted television series and feature films that speak to a global audience.
Khris Baxter
Prior to Lost Mountain, Khris Baxter co-founded and managed Boundary Stone Films (BSF). BSF developed and financed a wide range of projects in partnership with Cross Creek Pictures (Black Swan, Hacksaw Ridge) and Crystal City Entertainment (Ides of March, The Butler).
Boundary Stone’s most recent film was Above the Shadows, written and directed by Claudia Myers and featuring Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Jim Gaffigan, and Megan Fox.
Early in his career, Khris co-wrote the screenplay for Voyage, starring Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), and Eric Roberts (Runaway Train).
Khris has optioned numerous screenplays and has worked on a variety of projects with producers such as Mace Neufeld (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The General’s Daughter), David Wolper (L.A. Confidential), and Ari Pinchot (Everything Must Go, Ides of March, The Butler).
Khris brings decades of writing, producing, and teaching experience to Lost Mountain.
Khris teaches screenwriting at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as well as at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a member of the Virginia Film Office where he has been a judge for the annual Virginia Screenwriting Competition since 2004.
Amy Martin
Amy Martin is a creative producer and screenwriter for Lost Mountain.
She began her career in development and acquisitions for a professional publisher and honed her skills in the global communications and public relations industries.
Now she is a published essayist, fiction writer, literary critic, and entertainment reviewer, as well as a produced playwright, and has more than two decades of screenwriting experience for both television and film. Some of her work can be linked to and read on her website and at the Southern Review of Books.
Amy especially enjoys conceiving and writing female-forward stories in multiple genres. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and writing for stage and screen.
Maxwell Abramson
Maxwell Abramson is an emerging entertainment professional and recent graduate of Dickinson College, where he majored in English and minored in Film & Media Studies and Creative Writing.
Interested in entertainment from the get-go, much of Maxwell’s education—for example, his Advanced Seminar in American Television, Fundamentals of Digital Film Production, and Advanced Program in Script-/Screenwriting and Narrative Film Structure classes—was geared toward gaining an understanding of the industry.
Maxwell currently works as a Script Reader for the Austin Film Festival, providing coverage and analytic feedback on screenplays submitted for a variety of contest categories.
As a Development Associate at Lost Mountain, he is involved in all levels of development, searching for and assisting in assessing scripts and other IP.
Maxwell is extremely passionate about telling meaningful, subversive, and inclusive stories that connect with people on an emotional level. He is currently working on several of his own creative projects, gaining experience as both a writer and storyteller.