Artists

Christian began his filmmaking career 20 years ago. As a sherpa and keen understudy for director Bill Heath, he carried a 16mm camera package on a Warren Miller ski shoot in the Kooteny mountains of British Columbia.

After learning the craft of shooting film, he was then hired to travel the world as the main cinematographer for two of the most prominent ski and snowboard film companies at the time: Greg Stump and Adventurescope Films.

In 1995, he shot and directed Locomotion. It was an overnight success. Finalist at the prestigious Banff Mountain Film Festival and feature on the festival world tour, the film was intricate in launching the young filmmaker's career. As a result, Powder Magazine wrote a feature article about him and awarded Locomotion the highest score in their ski movie review. In addition, Christian was awarded best new ski filmmaker at the Crested Butte International Film Festival in Colorado.

In 1997, he founded Radical Films. The three Kranked movies that he directed revolutionized mountain biking and was internationally acclaimed to bring extreme free riding to the world. Many projects later he sold his share of the company to expand his horizon as a freelance director and DOP.

Since then, Christian has been in high demand working on commercials, feature films, short films, documentaries, TV shows, corporate and promotional films.

Most recently, Christian has been involved in a diverse array of projects: action director / DOP for Ski Bums, an NFP feature / documentary film; second unit cinematographer for the Fantastic 4 feature film; director / DOP of a Parcs Quebec commercial; director of a Quick Silver theatre commercial and cinematographer for an American Express commercial with olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White.

Christian is presently wrapping up as DOP for Carts of Darkness, another NFB feature / documentary film to premiere at the Whistler Film Festival in November

His playground is now Squamish, BC, where he lives with his partner, daughter, and his many toys.