Chris directs film, television, commercials, music videos and documentaries in the US, UK and Ireland.
Starting out making comedy sketches for ITV and BBC primetime shows, his career has seen him constantly working at the top end of many visual disciplines.
Chris has made over 50 commercials in Europe and the US over the last 10 years for clients such as Kleenex, Samsung, Dove, Jacobs, V05, Schwarkopf, Wonderba and L’Oreal working with the likes of Tom Hardy, Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, Chris Rock, Lily Cole, Emmanuelle Beart and Christina Aguilera to name but a few. His work has covered beauty, lifestyle and narrative. In 2013 his innovative and technically demanding spot for Digicel won the Grand Prix at the American Advertising Awards.
In music videos he has worked, amongst others, with Nelly Furtado, Timberland, Robyn, Ellie Goulding and Kelis. He also won the Samsung Future Shorts award for his film ‘Maybe One Day’ which played throughout the summer of 2009 at Vue Cinema complexes throughout the UK.
Chris is at home in many disciplines handling celebrities, actors, models, clients and agencies alike. He has a clear beauty aesthetic as well as strong experience in narrative and humour. Chris’ broad range of work has made him stand out as an innovative & creative director with an ability to see beyond the surface & create something truly unique.
In the last year alone he directed the eighth feature length instalment of Rich Hall’s American History for the BBC, the entire series of the live action Disney series ‘EVERMOOR’ for 150 territories world wide which was nominated for an International Emmy, award winning animated commercials for the UK & US, a BBC comedy pilot that went to series, a new series for Sky1 staring James Vanderbeek and Alice Lowe, the writing of an adaptation of Eric Morecambe’s The Reluctant Vampire as well a handful of other commercials in the US, UK and Ireland.