Christopher Newman

Director, Producer

Oliver Jeffers Earth Day  

A single mother working as a dishwasher who has another life as record-breaking mountain climber.

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

Ancestry Holiday - Discovery 

I originally set out to make this film as a homage to Wallace Stegner and the enduring words he wrote in his famous 'Wilderness Letter' to Congress in 1960. His poetic appeal for robust and comprehensive conservation efforts of America’s wild lands gave me pause. In this current political climate his words began to take on new meaning. His plea for what wilderness can do for us is more relevant now than ever. Thousands of acres of our remaining public lands are threatened everyday. We need to stand together to protect America's wild lands from being sold off to the highest bidder. We must preserve wilderness as a "means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."

Hipcamp Presents: A Letter to Congress 

Coca-Cola History Shakers 

Christopher Newman's short, lyrical visual poem was inspired by and is an homage to Wallace Stegner's 1960 "Letter to Congress," in which the writer advocated for the preservation of the wilderness that then remained. "Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed," Stegner wrote.

A Letter to Congress

An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.

When Two Worlds Collide

In 2005 D-Q University, California's only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle. Since then, the school's board of trustees, past students, and community members have tried to reopen the school against all odds.

Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's Only Tribal College

In the male dominated music scene of Lima, Peru, a group of young women form a percussion ensemble called Pario Paula, where they develop a strong community of women unlike anything they have experienced before.

Por Fin Parió Paula

'Lord of Miracles' is an observational portrait of the annual Catholic procession of 'El Senor de los Milagros' in Lima, Peru. What began as a small cult practiced by Afro-Peruvians in the late 18th century has now spread all over the world and is one of the largest religious processions in the world.