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Chris Romeike is a freelance cinematographer and director whose work ranges from documentaries, to television series, long and short form drama to commercials, music videos and experimental work, shooting in various enviroments and locatiions around the world.

Educated at Ryerson Polytechnic University in the Media Arts Program, Chris has developed a solid and diverse palate of image making. His early years were spent at the progressive production house Cuppa Coffee Productions, where he shot award winning live-action commercials, show openers and inventive stop-motion shorts.

For the past seven years Chris has been concentrating on documentaries, shooting over 20 documentary films and 12 documentary series for television. His film credits of note include: Brenda Longfellow's multi award winning Tina in Mexico, Liz Marshall's Musicians in the War Zone-Iraq and Voices of Dissent-The struggle for freedom of speech in Turkey both CAB winners. In 2005 Chris had two films he worked on in the Hot Docs festival‹Elle Flanders feature documentary Zero Degrees of Separation, which went on to gather 9 international awards and his own film 9 Months 6 Blocks, which received an honors, mention for best direction. 2005 also marked the year that the CBC documentary Four Seasons Mosaic garnered a Gemini Nomination for Chris in the Performing Arts category for best photography as well as the premier of the feature film Souvenir of Canada at the Toronto International Film Fest, which was released in theaters across Canada in 2006.

2007 marked the premier for the long anticipated Nature of Things documentary Weather Report directed by Brenda Longfellow, which looked at climate change from various locations around the globe. Currently Chris is developing his own film as well as in production on two new features - Hubert Davis's Invisible City and Rob Pilichowski's All Out War. Both to be released in 2008.