Christian Carroll
Directing
Biography
Christian Carroll is a director and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Oklahoma City and moved to Philadelphia at age nine, where he lived through the end of high school before heading to Los Angeles to study at Occidental College, earning a BA in Film Production and Media Studies. His heritage spans Chinese, Chinese-Malaysian, Native American (Mississippi Choctaw), and white descent, and those layered perspectives have shaped the way he sees and shoots the world. His feature films include Out of Breath and Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two. If you want, I can help tighten the tone further, make it more cinematic, or tailor it to a website, grant application, or press kit.
Known For
After a confrontation leaves a racist police officer dead, charismatic out-of-work actor Jean-Michel tries to convince Audrey, a hip street photographer, to flee the city with him.
Out of Breath
After the murder of her uncle, activist Maori photographer Emma returns to New Zealand to claim her inheritance. There she has visions of a monster called Broken Beak, and as more family members die, she is compelled to vengeful action.
The Burning of Broken Beak
When a young man gets seduced into helping with the removal of a dead body, he must find out the truth behind the corpse before he loses his life or gains a fortune. It's a madcap comic heist film with a lot of heart.
Serious Laundry
An inventor creates a camera that can duplicate what it films. Using this camera he attempts to capture and preserve a moment of happiness between himself and his lover in the hope that his duplicate self will be happy forever if the recording is projected in an endless loop.