John Christou

Filmes

Você Pode Viver para Sempre
Executive Producer
Quando a adolescente lésbica Jaime é enviada para viver em uma comunidade das Testemunhas de Jeová, ela se apaixona por uma devota Testemunha e as duas embarcam em um intenso caso com consequências que irão remodelar o resto de suas vidas.
Horror Sangrento
Executive Producer
Os mortos estão voltando à vida fora da reserva isolada Mi'gmaq de Corvo Vermelho, exceto por seus habitantes indígenas que são imunes à peste zumbi. Traylor, o xerife tribal, deve proteger a namorada grávida de seu filho, refugiados apocalípticos, e reservar riff raff das hordas de cadáveres brancos ambulantes.
Horror Sangrento
Producer
Os mortos estão voltando à vida fora da reserva isolada Mi'gmaq de Corvo Vermelho, exceto por seus habitantes indígenas que são imunes à peste zumbi. Traylor, o xerife tribal, deve proteger a namorada grávida de seu filho, refugiados apocalípticos, e reservar riff raff das hordas de cadáveres brancos ambulantes.
The Saver
Producer
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
The Saver
Pawn Shop Owner
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
File Under Miscellaneous
Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape: a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic - the display window littered with skin and limb samples - and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
Development Producer
Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
Up the Yangtze
Producer
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.