Chris Strikes
Writer | Director | Producer
Chris Strikes is a Canadian Screen Award-winning director who began his career in music videos working with top Canadian and international artists, including Nelly Furtado, Kardinal Offishall and Machel Montano. Being of Jamaican and Barbadian decent, Chris prides himself in unearthing forgotten of and/or little known Caribbean stories and characters for the screen.
In 2019 Chris was one of only six recipients of Hot Docs’ first Cross Currents Canada Fund, with his first feature length documentary BECOMING A QUEEN. Chris is also an alumni of the Hot Docs Accelerator Fellowship and the Reelworld E20 program. BECOMING A QUEEN screened in film festivals in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and went on to win Best Feature Film at the 2021 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Baltimore International Black Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture Editing for Documentary in the 2021 DGC Awards.
Chris followed this success up with writing, directing and co- producing the hit CBC Short Docs film, PATTY VS. PATTY, released in 2022. PATTY VS. PATTY went on to win five awards, most notably the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Short Documentary. Most recently, Chris co-directed the CBC The Nature of Things documentary HAIRY TALES, an exciting and quirky examination of what is hair and can we change our hair destiny? HAIRY TALES was released in March 2024
