“The cinematography ranges from epic to intimate...”
Christian Bielz is a passionate cinematographer working across fiction and documentary. His award-winning work has screened at festivals worldwide including TIFF, Hot Docs, Fantasia, and has aired on major networks and platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and CBC.
Christian’s latest film directed by Adam MacDonald, This is Not a Test, will have its world premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in October 2025. The zombie outbreak film stars Olivia Holt alongside a great cast including the talented Luke Macfarlane. Previous collaborations with MacDonald include nature thriller Out Come the Wolves (2024), occult thriller Pyewacket (TIFF 2017) and the survival hit Backcountry (TIFF 2014).
Christian’s work on the Amazon Prime series The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (dir. Nathalie Bibeau) earned him a 2023 CSC Award nomination for Best Cinematography: Documentary Long Format. The four-part series premiered at Hot Docs before launching as the first Amazon Original documentary series in Canada.
In 2021, Christian received a CSC Award for Best Cinematography: Dramatic Short for Bloodshed (dirs. Paolo Mancini & Daniel Watchorn), which premiered at Fantasia and went on to win multiple cinematography awards internationally. That same year, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in Drama for Nowhere to Be Found (dir. Thomas Michael).
His work on The Last Walrus (dir. Nathalie Bibeau), a documentary for CBC’s The Nature of Things, was nominated at the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Cinematography: Documentary or Factual. He also lensed the feature length doc The Walrus and the Whistleblower, which won the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs in 2020, placing it on the Oscars shortlist in 2021.
Beyond fiction and documentary, Christian’s work on music video Eres Tú, by songwriter Alex Cuba landed him a Latin Grammy in 2013. It was directed by longtime friend Taylor Fox.
