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BIO

Chris Romeike, CSC is a freelance cinematographer and filmmaker working in fiction, documentary and commercial projects. His roots in photojournalism and narrative film have informed his approach, bringing an inspired, innovative cinematic quality to documentary and expressive naturalism to fiction.

International travel through work, collaborating with a diversity of talented directors on award winning films, campaigns, and series, many of which take on difficult subject matters, has refined Chris’s passion and sensitivity as a cinematographer and person. These experiences have shaped Chris’s ability to navigate the subtle nuances of visual storytelling and elevate the human emotion of story with respect and empathy.

Chris’s most recent credits of note include the four part documentary series The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal (Amazon Prime), which won the Audience Award at TIFF 2024, the feature documentaries BLACK ICE (ESPN) directed by Hubert Davis, winner of the Audience Award at TIFF 2022 and nominated for a CSC award for Best Documentary Cinematography, OKAY! The ASD Band Film, HotDocs audience winner 2022, 9/11 KIDS (Hot Docs ’20, DOC NYC ’20, Realscreen ‘20, CBC) by director Elizabeth St. Philip for which he was nominated for the 2021 Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in Documentary, INCONVENIENT INDIAN, awarded the People’s Choice Documentary Award and Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Film at TIFF 2020, Grand Prize for Best National Feature (RIDM ‘20), GIANTS OF AFRICA by director Hubert Davis (TIFF ’16, Netflix) which also garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary Cinematography.

In hybrid documentary and drama, titles include the upcoming 2025 feature The Nest by award winning director Chase Joynt and academic Julietta Singh as well as classic titles such as Souvenir of Canada, The Body Machine (Discovery Canada), RISE (Viceland, CSA Best Doc Series), Museum Secrets (History Channel), The Nature if Things (CBC), In The Making (CBC), and THE GREAT MARTIAN WAR OF 1913-1917, (History Channel). 

Innovative short form and inventive commercial work is also a passion for Chris. His various works with director Hubert Davis includes Move Your Mind (NFB), the Cannes Lions winning Once More, and HP’s RIVOLTA, which followed notorious hacker Michael “Mafiaboy” Calce and was the recipient of a Cannes Film Lion in 2017.

Chris is a full member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and IATSE Local 667.

Chris holds a Master of Fine Arts, Film Production (York University) | Bachelor of Fine Arts (TMU, Toronto Metropolitan University)

Complete listing of film and television credits available on IMDB.