Chris Wilson
agent: Natalie Spanier - natalie@sternwild.com
Chris is a multiple EMMY & RTS winning, BAFTA & Grierson nominated film maker whose portfolio includes documentaries for Apple, Disney, Netflix, Sky Docs, BBC, Channel 4, Sky Arts, HBO and Nat Geo.
He specializes in bringing complex, testimony-driven, unfolding and retrospective stories to life with rigour and heart. As an experienced producer & director, skilled film editor, and professionally trained musician, he offers a rare combination of editorial intelligence and creative flair.
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Chris’ early films include landmark music docs such as Hotel California: LA From the Byrds to The Eagles and I Shot John Lennon, and definitive history documentaries on Bonnie and Clyde and Frederick the Great. Recent successes include the multi-award-winning feature doc Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (BBC), acclaimed series Game of Throws: Inside Darts (Sky docs); Camden (Disney), Asif Kapadia’s homage to a musical mecca, award winning series The Art of Drumming (Sky Arts) and The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story.
Chris is equally at home directing his own films or helping realise other directors’ creative visions as an editor, while also working regularly as a trouble-shooting exec / editor. He is particularly strong in shaping complex long-form narrative, infusing all of his films with a distinctive style, pace and rhythm.
Chris has worked with A-list talent, from Steven Spielberg to The Rolling Stones, Luke Littler to Paul McCartney, and with a variety of authors and presenters, from Oxbridge professors to A-list comedians. He’s also worked extensively on obs-docs, helping ordinary people tell their extraordinary stories.
In addition to hands-on film making, Chris also has valuable experience as a Commissioning Editor. He helped to establish SKY ATLANTIC as a major player in the feature doc space, commissioning, executive producing and acquiring internationally acclaimed, award-winning films including Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief.