Chris Sanders

Christopher Michael Sanders is an American animation director, film director, screenwriter, producer, illustrator and voice actor. He is best known for co-writing and directing Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002) and DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with Dean DeBlois, and for creating and voicing Stitch in Lilo & Stitch and every Western-produced work in its franchise. He also directed and co-wrote DreamWorks' The Croods (2013), along with Kirk DeMicco, and later directed 20th Century Studios' The Call of the Wild (2020), his live-action directorial debut and his first film that he directed without a co-director.