“The cinematography ranges from epic to intimate...”
Christian Bielz is a Canadian cinematographer working in both fiction and documentary. His work has screened at leading film festivals and aired on major networks and platforms including Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Christian most recently collaborated with director Serville Poblete on the feature drama Sunburn, set for release in 2026. The two first worked together on Serve's NFB-produced short documentary King's Court, which received nominations for Best Short Documentary at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards and Documentary Short Format Cinematography from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.
In 2025, Christian teamed up with director Adam MacDonald to shoot the zombie thriller This Is Not a Test, which opened theatrically across the U.S. and Canada in February 2026. The film marked their latest collaboration, following Out Come the Wolves (2024), Pyewacket (TIFF 2017), and Backcountry (TIFF 2014).
The Amazon Prime series The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (dir. Nathalie Bibeau) earned Christian a 2023 CSC Award nomination for Best Cinematography in documentary. The four-part series premiered at Hot Docs before launching as the first Amazon Original documentary series in Canada.
In 2021, Christian was recognized with a CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a dramatic short for Bloodshed (dirs. Paolo Mancini & Daniel Watchorn). The short film premiered at Fantasia Festival, where it was awarded best cinematography. That same year, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in Drama for Nowhere to Be Found (dir. Thomas Michael).
Christian's cinematography on The Last Walrus (dir. Nathalie Bibeau), which aired on CBC's The Nature of Things, earned a 2022 Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary. The film followed the award-winning feature documentary The Walrus and the Whistleblower, which won the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs in 2020 and qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards shortlist.
Earlier in his career, Christian shot several music videos, including Alex Cuba's Eres Tú. Directed by his childhood friend Taylor Fox, the video received a Latin Grammy Award in 2013.
