“The cinematography ranges from epic to intimate...”
Christian Bielz is a Canadian cinematographer working across fiction and documentary. His work has screened at leading film festivals and on major networks and platforms, including Netflix and Amazon.
Christian recently collaborated with writer-director Serville Poblete on the coming-of-age film Sunburn, which premieres at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. Their previous collaboration, the NFB-produced documentary short King’s Court, premiered at Hot Docs in 2025 and earned nominations from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Canadian Screen Awards.
Christian teamed up with director Adam MacDonald for their fourth feature film together, zombie thriller This Is Not a Test, which opened theatrically across the U.S. and Canada in 2026. The film follows Out Come the Wolves (2024), Pyewacket (TIFF 2017), and Backcountry (TIFF 2014).
His 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.
