Chris Luckhardt

Chris Luckhardt was on born February 20, 1978 in Chatham, Ontario at St. Joseph Hospital. Oldest son of Laurie and Linda Luckhardt, he has one younger sister, Amanda, and one younger brother, Jason. His ethnic background is German, British, Scottish and Irish; both parents were born in Canada, family originated from Germany and England. Chris is an established Toronto based film and television producer. With a physics and astronomy degree from York University, he has managed to excel in both television and film market as a producer and production manager. He produced the hit Canadian superhero TV series Team Epic (2009) which aired on BiteTV. More recently, he was the APM for the first season of CityTV reality TV show Meet the Family (2013). With the success on producing the award winning short films Altarcations (2010) and Shaky Grounds (2010), he established Willowood Films to further develop ideas and scripts into TV series, short films and feature films. Over the past several years, he has produced the following short films: The Last Mermaids (2012), Love Is (2013), What Have We Done (2013), For Now and Forever, Look Up (2018), Bela (2014) (Bravofact), Siren (2014) (Bravofact) and the multiple award winning feature film Tru Love (2013). During that time period, he has also line produced/PM four feature films Silent Retreat (2013), Jackie Boy (2015), Gridlocked (2015), Blood Hunters (2016); and two short films The Portal (2014) (Bravofact) and Cold Feet (2014) (CFC). Chris graduated from Lester B. Pearson High School in 1997 with aspirations of being an astronaut. He soon realized that goal of space travel would not come to pass in the immediate or foreseeable future. Chris pursued other fields of interest from Web Designing, Marketing and Event Planning. Chris holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from York University. His first venture in film started with the creation of his own production company 'Sprinkles and Cake Film Productions' with fellow filmmaker Carla Susanto. They would go on to make several short films, all featuring in film festivals around the world. In 2008, Chris was hired at 'Poetic Licence Productions (PLP)' as their Chief Technical Officer / Producer. Working with Montgomery Bjornson, they both developed and produced the hit Canadian superhero web series Team Epic (2009), which was later picked up on television by Bite TV. Chris has been able to use his diverse skill set in many positions ranging from producer, line producer, production manager, writer, assistant director, camera operator and more...