Christopher Darton

Christopher Darton (director/camera/producer/editor) is a writer and filmmaker from Port Colborne, Ontario who has worked as a freelance writer, photographer and videographer for the past 25 years since graduating from Sheridan College in Film. Growing up in Fort Erie, Ontario Chris played hockey and read comic books like any normal Canadian kid until the start of the home video revolution in the early 80's. Owning one of the first beta systems on the market and a fertile imagination Chris began watching 2 or 3 movies a day and shooting his own movies on Super 8mm. "I was fortunate to have a small dedicated group of friends who were artists ... or if they didn't draw or paint or write they acted or built explosives for my movies. It was the height of creativity. If we weren't drawing or making movies we were listening to albums and making plans for drawing or making movies." Attending Sheridan College Chris majored in Illustration for one year ... then film studies for three. Studying under the likes of Canadian independent filmmaking maverick Phill Hoffman and documentarian Vladimir Kabelik Chris developed a solid basis in all facets of film from screenwriting to directing; lighting to editing. After graduating; Chris worked for 5 years in a video store where he immersed himself in films of all sorts: horror, drama, foreign, action ... watching anything he could get his hands on. "On any given night I could watch the new David Lynch film. Followed by something by one of Charles Band's companies or Troma or Roger Corman ... followed by Chuck Norris or Akira Kurosawa. It was great period of immersing myself in cinema of all sorts." Chris has written seven feature length films as well as acting as creator/writer of the unproduced TV series Turtle Island Blues. During the past few years he's focused his attention on the Blues music field in Canada having written articles for Maple Blues for the Toronto Blues Society, the linear notes of Danny Brooks CD Texasissippi Soul Man as well as shoot photos and video for everybody from Crowbar to Guitar Mikey. In 2014 Chris completed The Way We Was: The Story of the Kendall Wall Band and is feature film debut as director/producer/editor. Hard Working Man: The Music and Miracles of Danny Brooks will be his second feature length documentary ... principle shooting commenced in 2016. Halloween Baby is Chris's first kick at the can at producing a project involving a group of collaborators ... that group would eventually become Skeleton Crew Entertainment.