Christopher was a graduate student of theater in the University of the Philippines. He won two Palanca Awards for Literature in 2001 and 2002 for his two full-length plays War Booty and The Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931. 

He is an alumni of the 2006 Asian Film Academy fellowship program (AFA) in Pusan, South Korea where he attended a series of filmmaking workshops,  mentoring program in directing and a short film production with renown Asian film directors and young Asian filmmakers.

He founded his independent film company Sine Caboloan in 2007 dedicated to producing independent digital films about the Pangasinan region and its’ people.

His films and videos include Charlie Brown (1998), The Independence Mission (2005 Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Alternative Film and Video), The Pilgrim’s Journey (exhibited during the 2006 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival), The Calling (Digital Lokal Best Short Film during the 2007 Cinemanila International Film Festival), Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures (Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema during the 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival), and recently The Child of the Sun, his first full-length feature film which won the Lino Brocka Grand Prize and the Best Director Award during the 2009 Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Filmography of Director

Charlie Brown

1998. Short narrative feature. 12 minutes in Video 8 format. Director, screenwriter, production manager and producer. Screened at the University of the Philippines and the Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 1998. (Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Alternative Film and Video)

Ti Panagwayaan nga Misyon  (The Independence Mission)

2004. Narrative feature in the Iluko language. 58 minutes in miniDV format. Director, screenwriter and producer. Screened during the 2004 Cinemanila International Film Festival (short film in-competition).  Winner of a Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 2005. (Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Alternative Film and Video)

Lakaran  (The Pilgrim’s Journey)

2006.  Narrative feature in Tagalog language. 52 minutes in 16 mm film and miniDV format. Director, screenwriter, and producer. Screened during the 2006 Cinemalaya  Independent Film Festival, University of the Philippines at Los Baños (2006), 2006 Cinemanila International Film Festival and the Cine Katipunan at the Magnet Café (2007).

The Calling

2006. Short narrative feature in Kinaray-a and Korean languages. 14 minutes in HD format. Produced by the Asian Film Academy. Screenwriter and co-director. World premiere during the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival. Screened in the Cine Katipunan at the Magnet Café (2007), Titus Brandsma Media Center Independent Film Festival (2007),the 9^th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2007), and the 5^th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival (2009). Winner of Digital Lokal Best Short Film  during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui, tan Kaamong ya Makakailiw ed Sika :  Gurgurlis ed Banua  (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister and a Wife who longs for You: Landscape with Figures).  A short experimental film based from a Pangasinan-language translation of the Filipino-American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan’s poem Landscape with Figures (1942). Images in the film were shot using a mobile phone camera and a microscope video camera. Concept, camerawork, and post-production (2008). Winner of the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker during the 10^th Cinemanila International Film Festival in 2008. Screened during the 10^th Cinemanila International Film Festival, the University of the Philippines’ Indiemand film screenings (2008), the Mindanao Film Festival (2008),  the Fully Booked screenings at the Fort Bonifacio (2009), screened in-competition during the 2009 Busan Universiade for Digital Contents and  the Stranger than Cinema section of the 2009 Jeonju International Film Festival both in South Korea.  The short film was also screened at the SM Mall in Rosales, Pangasinan (June 2009), the Big Sky Mind  (August 2009), the 1^st Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival  (August 2009), and the Titus Brandsma Media Program’s 5^th Pinoy Short Film Festival (August 2009). The short film is also part of the 2009 S-Express Philippines - a series of screenings commissioned by The Substation, an independent Arts Space in Singapore. The S-Express began in Singapore  and  toured in the Philippines,Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Anacbanua  (The Child of the Sun). Producer, screenwriter, director, and post-production (2009). A full-length narrative feature film in HDV format based from the Pangasinan-language poems (anlong) of Santiago Villafania, Melchor Orpilla, and Erwin Fernandez. Received the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize and Best Director Award during the 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2009). Screened during the 16th Filipino American Cine Festival in San Francisco (2009) and South Korean premiere in the Stranger Than Cinema section of the 2010 Jeonju International Film Festival.

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