Christopher LaMarca is an Oscar nominated cinematographer and award winning director. Known for the intimacy of his character driven work, he lensed the film Sugarcane which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award for Documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Sugarcane garnered over 30 international awards, including the National Board of Review award for Best Documentary, two Critics Choice awards, as well as nominations for the Director’s Guild, Gotham, Indie Spirit and PeaBody awards. LaMarca won the Best Cinematography Award from Cinema Eye Honors for his work on Sugarcane as well. The film was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films and is streaming on Disney + and Hulu.
LaMarca's work has screened in top festivals worldwide including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Berlinale and The Museum of Modern Art. His work as a director has garnered him an Emmy nomination and several special jury awards- he was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and is a Sundance Institute Edit and Story lab film fellow. Prior to filmmaking he spent 10 years on the road as an award-winning magazine photojournalist (Time / Rollingstone/ GQ) and his monograph, Forest Defenders: the Confrontational American Landscape was published by powerHouse Books. Compelled to translate his photography work to the screen, Christopher switched mediums and brought his intimate and raw visual aesthetic to film. His love for immersive filmmaking and sonic soundscapes weave in and out of some of the most pressing social and cultural issues of the moment.
LaMarca is currently in production on his third feature film, JUSTUS produced by Fishbowl films.
