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Christian Picken

Christian Picken

Acting

Biography

Christian Picken is a Canadian film student, as well as an aspiring writer and director. As a filmmaker, Picken often works in horror and comedy. His first short film titled "Groovin CD's" was just a high school project for Picken's Media Arts class in grade 12. Whereas his second "After Hours" was for his final assignment in his first semester of film school. He directed "After Hours" alongside classmate and director Olivia Papetti. Christian Picken currently studies Film & TV at Sheridan College in their BFTV program.

Known For

Merry Christmas Mom
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Three foster siblings are reunited on Christmas following the passing of their foster Mom.

Merry Christmas Mom

2025
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Undefeated street fighter Cole is challenged by young fighter Mitt. Everyone claims Mitt is stupid, but the arrogant Cole may not be as strong as everyone believes.

Nine

2024
A Song For My Father
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A Song For My Father is a six-minute poetic documentary that examines grief and the complicated relationship we develop with the things that once connected us to the people we’ve lost. After the sudden death of their musician father, filmmaker Shona Buschlen and her younger brother Eddie, a jazz trumpet player, return to a performance space where their father once played. In the early stages of grief, music becomes difficult to hear, no longer comforting but a reminder of absence. Over time, these feelings begin to shift. Through archival recordings of their father’s bass and live trumpet improvisations by Eddie, the film creates a call and answer across time, tracing how sound becomes a way to sit with grief rather than escape it. Blending voiceover, childhood footage, and sound-driven editing, A Song For My Father explores grief not as something to be resolved, but as something lived with, where healing comes from allowing yourself to feel.

A Song For My Father

Bestial
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As a Son becomes a man, his lycanthropic Father seeks to turn him into a werewolf, and his Mother wants the opposite. Following a violent argument over the dinner table, the Son runs away, setting in motion a bloody chain of events.

Bestial

2025
Her Beginnings
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A young witch in 1800s Salem casts a spell in order to overthrow the priest and become the towns new leader.

Her Beginnings

2023
introducing POISON 11
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Toronto’s hardcore music scene is loud, abrasive, and passionately independent; yet, even here, numerous independent bands and artists slip through the cracks. Just earlier this year, the Toronto Hardcore music scene was introduced to POISON 11, a young band still defining who they are while fighting to be heard. introducing POISON 11 explores what it is to be an artist in the big 2025.

introducing POISON 11

2025
Almost Cupid
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To get his wings, a newly hired cupid must choose between doing the job and honouring free will after being assigned to save a toxic relationship that shouldn't exist.

Almost Cupid

2026
After Hours
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A college student encounters something strange while studying late as she discovers she may not be alone.

After Hours

2023
Groovin CD's
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Come visit Groovin CD’s, the greatest CD Store of all time.

Groovin CD's

2023
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When his family is threatened, a reformed gangster is dragged back into violence, confronting the cost of survival and the impossibility of escape.

A Losing Game

A Lover's Stroll
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A couples' romantic dinner gets interrupted by a mischievous wizard.

A Lover's Stroll

2025
MACAAN
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When a Somali immigrant joins an adult ESL class, he romantically pursues an uninterested classmate all while navigating the many challenges of the modern immigrant experience.

MACAAN

2026