Christopher Darton

Christopher Darton (director/camera/producer/editor) is an award winning Anishinaabe illustrator, writer and filmmaker with a Bachelor's Degree in Indigenous Studies from Laurentian University as well as studying Illustration and graduating in Film at Sheridan College. His historic family roots are Ojibwa/Cree from both Flying Post and Moose Cree Nations and an honoured off reserve member of the Algonquin community of Timiskaming First Nation. Growing up in Fort Erie, Ontario Chris played hockey and read comic books like any normal Canadian kid until the start of the home video revolution in the early 80's. Owning one of the first video systems on the market and fertile imagination Chris began watching 2 or 3 movies a day and shooting his own movies on Super 8mm. After film school, where he studied under Canadian avant-garde legends Philip Hoffman and Richard Kerr as well photographer/documentarian Vladimir Kabelik; Chris worked for 5 years in a video store where he immersed himself in films of all sorts: watching 3 or 4 films a day, anything he could get his hands on from John Waters to Martin Scorsese; Larry Cohen to Bruce Lee. Chris has produced/directed/shot/edited two feature length documentary films for his production company Blues Harp Productions: 'The Way We Was: The Story of the Kendall Wall Band' and 'Hard Working Man: The Music and Miracles of Danny Brooks'. In 2019 he completed the short documentary 'The Essence of Goodness: The Harold Axtell Story' about noted naturalist/ornithologist/scientist Harold Axtell. In 2020 Chris produced and directed the short documentaries 'At the Brink: A Personal View of Suicides Over Niagara Falls' and the award-winning doc 'Angie: Tales of Determination.' Chris's films have been selected and screened in film festivals all throughout North America. Chris has also acted as Producer for Skeleton Crew Entertainment. Producing the award winning music video/mini horror film 'Halloween Baby' and '37% Pure Evil' an Official Selection at Shock Stock 2018 where it won the Crystal Shocker Award for Best Screenplay. He recently completed his first non-documentary feature film the award-winning The Damnation and acted as Associate Producer on Greg Lamberson's Guns of Eden Frenzy Moon. As well as being a Producer on the documentary feature Project Cold Days. Chris has shot and directed music videos for a number of noted Canadian blues acts as well as creating CD/vinyl cover art for their projects. He is working on his follow up film to The Damnation titled The Indian as well as a sequel to The Damnation titled Straight to Hell.