Christian Bielz is a Canadian cinematographer. His work has screened at leading film festivals and on major networks and platforms, including Netflix and Amazon.
He recently collaborated with writer-director Serville Poblete on the coming-of-age film Sunburn, which received the Best Canadian Feature Film Award at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. This is their second project together, following King’s Court, an NFB-produced short documentary that premiered at Hot Docs in 2025 and received nominations from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Canadian Screen Awards.
Christian also reunited with director Adam MacDonald for their fourth feature together, the zombie thriller This Is Not a Test, which opened theatrically across the U.S. and Canada in 2026. Their previous collaborations include Out Come the Wolves (2024), Pyewacket (TIFF 2017), and Backcountry (TIFF 2014).
Christian’s documentary work includes Amazon Prime Video’s The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith, which earned a CSC Award nomination for Best Cinematography in documentary (2023), and CBC’s The Last Walrus, which received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Cinematography in a documentary (2022).
Christian received a CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a dramatic short (2021) for Bloodshed, which also won Best Cinematography at Fantasia Festival. Earlier in his career, he shot music videos including Alex Cuba’s Eres Tú, which won a Latin Grammy Award in 2013.
