Christian Whittaker

My Name is Christian Whittaker.

I graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2011 with a 2:1 in Film and Television Production (Directing). I have been working in the television and Film industry for over five years now.

I am from Canterbury, Kent in England which is beautiful but not a lot of filming happens in my neck of the woods. I come from a working class background, with my mother as a hairdresser and my dad a lorry driver, they have been extremely supportive despite the difficulty of this industry. At the age of 21 I left my home and moved to London in pursue of my life time dream of working in the film industry. After a lot of persistance and networking I finally got my entrance gig into running on a film in Swindon, where I worked for free and was able to impress the team enough to get on the next job and so on and so on.

I started as a runner and I have been working my way up to Assistant Director so far in pursuit of Directing professionally. I have been directing short films and music videos and have been fortunate enough to be trusted with directing Second Unit days with various professional productions.

I am hopping across the stepping stones and taking every job as it comes and loving each one of them, although each job I do, gets better and better and I learn more and more every time; which I am sure will never stop. I love what I do and the world we in television and film live in and couldn't imagine doing anything else with my time.

love getting lost in the time space that exists within cinema. Travelling through different eras and meeting different people fascinates me. I could quite easily sit in a coffee shop and watch people for hours, making up stories about their life, what sort of character they are? what sort of story their life would be. When the short film "My Dearest Jean" came up it was very close to my heart as it was based on how my great grandparents met in a time of such hardship. It follows their life straight after the second world war and how they are dealing with life in their class system but still managed to find love. To me this a magical Romantic Period Drama that has so much room for more depth and expansion on a larger scale. I learnt so much when directing this film about how to create loveable protagonists with characters progression in a short time period.

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