Chris Strikes is an award winning director who began his career in music videos working with top Canadian and international artists, including Nelly Furtado, Kardinal Offishall and Machel Montano. In 2017 Chris' animal awareness music video "Chains of Silence" for Stephanie Braganza won Best Music Video at both the Global Music Awards and the Merit Awards of Awareness.
Chris produced and directed short narrative films, which have screened in festivals in Cannes, London & Manchester UK, Toronto, Halifax, Hamilton and LA.
In 2019 Chris was also one of only six recipients of HotDocs' first CrossCurrents Canada Fund, with his first feature length documentary Becoming A Queen. Chris is an alumni of HotDocs Accelerator fellowship, Reelworld E20 program and is currently a fellow in the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative.
Our Athiana(2024)
The Nature of Things(1960)
Patty vs. Patty(2022)
Becoming a Queen(2021)
Burning Rubber(2017)as Soccer Commentator
Better Strangers(2019)
Carnivals Around The World(2018)
Raider Origins(2013)
Charlotte(2021)
Morningside(2025)
Bite of a Mango(2022)
Mariposa(2018)