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Christian Piers Betley

Educated in England, Christian is half Danish and has spent much time in Scandinavia, where he began his career in television.

He wrote and directed Pale Faces and Stranger Looks (1994) as part of the experimental documentary & film forum led by the head of the Hungarian film school. Pale Faces and Stranger Looks is a raw and uncompromising look at the lives of prostitutes in Oslo, Norway and was subsequently shown on Scandinavian television the following year.

Christian then wrote and directed Harry (1996), a pilot feature via Lars Von Triers' company, Zentropa Entertainment and Angel Arena Film ApS (Denmark). A bitter, sweet Danish comedy, complete with an original jazz soundtrack, Harry charts the highs and lows of a newly divorced man, forlornly chasing women half his age, starring Ulrich Thomsen (The Celebration) and Colin Campbell (My Beautiful Launderette & The Leather Boys).

During the late 1990s Christian wrote and directed several shorts, and after graduating from Bournemouth film school, UK, he furthered his experience in film & TV, working as a Director on award winning television commercials in the developing film community of Dubai, where he founded a production division of Filmworks.

From there, he moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2002, where he continued work as a screenwriter, teaming up with producer Kevin Reidy, (Ever After, Out of Sight & High Crimes).

Rampage was his next - a horror movie starring Samantha Lockwood (Lords of Dogtown), currently in development.

Christian has also co-written an action/adventure picture entitled Split Decision, which is under development in LA and is now in development on a Canadian comedy and an African spiritual drama for Nick Laws (The Constant Gardener & Blood Diamond).