Christopher Lamarca is a director and Emmy®-nominated cinematographer
currently based in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. His work has
screened in top festivals worldwide including SXSW, Berlinale, The
Museum of Modern Art, True/False, and Hot Docs, and has received
several special jury awards including being nominated for Cinema Eye
Honors. Christopher was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent
Film by Filmmaker Magazine and is a Sundance Institute Edit and Story
Lab film fellow. After 10 years on the road as an award-winning
magazine photojournalist (Time / Rolling Stone/ GQ), his monograph,
Forest Defenders: the Confrontational American Landscape was published
by powerHouse Books. Compelled to translate his photography work to
the screen, Christopher switched media and brought his intimate and
raw visual aesthetic to film. His love for immersive observational
filmmaking and sonic soundscapes weave in and out of some of the most
pressing social and cultural issues of the moment. Recently
Christopher served as the Director of Photography on the documentary
series Nuclear Family, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival
and is currently streaming on HBO Max.
