Mike Christie (director)
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Mike Christie is a British film and television director and producer who has made films for the
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, Showtime and Red Bull. His career began in the 1990s working with the artist and filmmaker
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– who he met at meetings of Act Up London – on projects including the book At Your Own Risk. Other early collaborators included Pet Shop Boys and
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with whom he worked from 1992 to 1997. In 1997, he co-created Drop the Debt, the mainstream music and entertainment industries campaign of the
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movement, fronted by Bono and others, and led to the cancellation of more than $100 billion of debt owed by 35 of the poorest countries. Christie's Parkour documentaries
Jump London ''Jump London'' is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, '' Jump Britain'' that first aired in J ...
(2003) and Jump Britain (2005), debuting Sebastien Foucan, presented the discipline to a global audience for the first time. In recognition, in 2010, Christie was nicknamed the "godfather" of Parkour by one of the sport's publications. Following the success of
Jump London ''Jump London'' is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, '' Jump Britain'' that first aired in J ...
, in 2004 Mike Christie founded production company Carbon Media, which was sold to ITV in 2009. Other work includes Concrete Circus (2011), the RTS award-winning and triple BAFTA nominated
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multi-platform project Big Art, The Secret Life of Buildings (2011),
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's Imaginate (2013),
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: Secrets of Success (2015), RTS award nominated series Football: A Brief History by
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(2016), The Art of China with
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(2014), The Art Show (2017), Grierson Award shortlisted
Hansa Studios Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. The studio, famous for its Meistersaal recording hall, is situated approximately 150 metres from the former Berlin Wall, giving rise to its former nickna ...
: By The Wall 1976–90 (2018), Little Britain Down Under (2007), Body Talk (2004) New Order: Decades (2018), and
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: The Insatiable Ones (2018).


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External links

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Jump London review, The Guardian 10 Sept 2003

Jump Magazine interview, 2010

Suede The Insatiable Ones review, British GQ feature Nov 2018

Red Bull interview 2013

Broadcast Magazine interview 25 September 2018

Website
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