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Christopher Newby (born 1957, Leeds, England) is a British film director and screenwriter. He studied at Leeds Polytechnic and The Royal College of Art in London.
“In this riveting narrative, journalist Kris Newby reveals the backstory behind the bioweaponization of ticks during the Cold War. Her truly frightening report demands we take another look at the hidden complexity of Lyme disease and answer the question: What, exactly, is in those ticks?”
Chris Newby. Director: Madagascar Skin. Chris Newby was born in 1957 in Leeds, England, UK. Chris is a director and editor, known for Madagascar Skin (1995), Relax (1991) and Anchoress (1993).
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Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [1] The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Shere, Surrey, in southern ...
Dec 4, 2013 · As AIG’s general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Chris Newby appears extraordinarily calm for a man in charge of a burgeoning portion of a $65.7bn business, that was described as on the brink of failure a couple of years ago.
As part of Acme’s 50 th anniversary launch in November 2022, Chris was announced as the inaugural recipient of Acme’s Jonathan Harvey Award. A new artist opportunity within the framework of Acme’s ’50 opportunities for 50 years’, the award recognises the need to provide transformational support for artists at all stages of their careers.
Already renowned for some of the most visually and conceptually imaginative British short films of the 1980s and early 1990s, Chris Newby made two strikingly original feature films in Anchoress (1993) and Madagascar Skin (1995) before his brand of highly personal cinema fell out of favour with the UK's increasingly conservative film funding bodies.
