Christopher Pryor Director of Photography, Co-editor

Christopher Pryor has collaborated closely with Florian Habicht as cinematographer and co-editor since the two met at Auckland University where he abandoned his engineering studies for photography and filmmaking. He has known Warwick Broadhead since 2001 when he shot material for Warwick’s multimedia adaptation of “The Selfish Giant”.

Chris was a finalist for Best Technical Contribution to a Feature Film (Budget Under NZ$1m) for his work as Director of Photography for “Rubbings from a Live Man” as well as a finalist for Best Technical Contribution to a Digital Feature at the NZ Film Awards for both “Woodenhead’ and “Kaikohe Demolition”. He attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2004 and was Director of Photography of Zia Mandviwalla's short film “Clean Linen”, which screened at both the Melbourne and NZ Film Festivals. He is currently shooting two documentary series for Maori television “Kete Aronui" and "Kaitiaki”.