‏Christopher Duddy‏

Over a span of the last 4 decades, Christopher Duddy has lent his diverse filmmaking skills to several of the biggest and most successfull movies in history and has become a sought after Producer, Director and Cinematographer. After studying photography in college, Christopher started his career at ILM, Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas' visual effects studio. He amassed an impressive body of experience early in his career filming visual effects and action sequences on blockbuster movies such as The Abyss, Total Recall and Terminator 2 (which he was on the Academy Award winning teams for visual effects on all three movies.) Christopher continued working with James Cameron on his next three features; True Lies, T-2 3D, and the 2nd most successful movie of all time, Titanic, in which Mr. Cameron enlisted Christopher to shoot the climax of the ship sinking (again, Christopher was on that Academy Award winning team for visual effects) Starting the new millennium, Christopher was one of the three credited cinematographers, including Roger Deakins and Andrej Bartkowiak, that shot the acclaimed Kevin Costner feature film Thirteen Days for New Line, where he and director Roger Donaldson re-created the Cuban missile site in the Philippines, while also bringing Washington D.C. back to 1962. In 2001, Christopher made his directing debut with the award winning short film entitled Leaving Peoria, which won the coveted Best Comedy Short Award at the 2001 Houston WorldFest Film Festival and his lead actor won the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Sun Valley Film Festival. This hilarious and heartfelt film was also written and produced by Duddy. Christopher has been the Director of Photography on several independent features that have premiered on HBO, Showtime and the Fox Family Channel. In 2004' he shot two horror movies, a remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary which he won best cinematography at Stan Winston's ScreamFest in 2005 and All Soul's Day which premiered to rave reviews at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival. In 2005 to 2010, Christopher formed Open Sky Entertainment to develop and produce feature films which has produced 7 films, one being his feature film directorial debut on the successful R rated comedy Cougar Club which is being distributed by Universal/Vivendi. In 2012, Chris began a journey into documentary filmmaking by producing and directing a music documentary feature film about legendary Hall of Fame rock star Duff McKagan of Guns and Roses and Velvet Revolver entitled It's So Easy and Other Lies which got a theatrical release in June of 2016 and is now currently on Netflix. Currently, Christopher is producing and the cinematographer on a remake of the legendary horror film Nosferatu and is attached to direct and shoot another music documentary about the legendary music family the Porcaro's of the band TOTO entitled Porcaro: A Band of Brothers and he also is the 2nd unit Director of Photography on the hit CBS show Scorpion which has just started production on season 4.