Biography
Extensive experience as a multi award winning writer, producer, and director of numerous feature film and television productions, motivated him to become a Co-Founder and CEO of three of Western Canada's largest and most prolific entertainment companies, beginning with the creation of BLT Productions Ltd.
In the late 1980s, that company was best known for the worldwide hit TV series "Andromeda" and the ABC mini- series "A Wrinkle In Time". In the early 1990s, he co-founded Mainframe Entertainment Inc., the world's first and largest television computer animation studio, best known for such hit series as "Reboot", "Transformers", "Spiderman" and the "Casper" and "Barbie" series of best selling DVD feature releases via MCA/Universal.
In the late 1990s, he organized the Sextant Entertainment Group, producer of numerous Hallmark financed mini-series, US/Canadian Network Movies of the Week, internationally co-produced animated television series and various studio/independent feature films seen around the world. A winner of numerous entertainment industry awards, including six Gemini Awards (Canada), Chris was inducted into the Smithsonian Institute's Cyberworld Hall of Fame, after being personally nominated by Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates for his pioneering work in computer animation.
Before moving to Vancouver, Christopher's Hollywood executive career began as Director of Prime Time Development at animation production giant Hanna-Barbera Studios, then as Senior Vice President of Motion Pictures and Television Production at Alchemy II Productions, and later served as Executive Producer at Burbank's DIC Studios.
In addition to creating highly successful entertainment companies, Christopher co-founded New Media BC, which evolved into a globally recognized trade organization representing over two hundred companies currently operating within British Columbia's multi-billion dollar annual new media technology sector - while serving as NMBC's founding President for three consecutive terms.
Movie Plus Canada has numerous feature films in pre-production, and release - including the $30 million production of "Hua Mulan", a co-production with Arclight Films and Polybona Film Group Beijing, now set for a Spring 2010 start production "The Monkey King", a fully 3-D computer animated $40 million co-production with China partners The China Film Group and Easternlight Films, and the recently Walt Disney released "Trail Of The Panda", which was filmed on mountain locations throughout the Sechzhuan Province of China in 2008.
