Christopher LaMarca is a Director and Emmy-nominated Cinematographer currently based in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. His work has screened in top festivals worldwide including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Berlinale, The Museum of Modern Art, TRUE/FALSE and HotDocs and has received several Special Jury awards including being nominated for Cinema Eye Honors. Christopher 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.
After 10 years on the road as an award-winning magazine photojournalist (Time / Rollingstone/ GQ) 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 observational filmmaking and sonic soundscapes weave in and out of some of the most pressing social and cultural issues of the moment.
Most recently Christopher served as the Director of Photography on the Documentary film Sugarcane which premiered at the 2024 Sundance film festival winning the ‘Directing Award’ in U.S. competition..
