Chris Roland

ACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER

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In 1992 Chris Roland sold everything he owned, slipped on a comfortable pair of shoes, and backpacked around the world, leaving behind his native Los Angeles. Three years and forty countries later, his trek took him to Cape Town where he now makes his home. Chris' career spans thirty-five years in the entertainment industry as a Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Distributor, and Disc Jockey.Chris has been involved in over eighty productions, including "VHI in Maui" for MTV Networks, the TV sitcom, Help Wanted, which he produced and directed for The Family Channel, and Sportstyles, in association with Fries Entertainment. In 1997, he wrote, directed and produced the virtual reality ride film, Cape Extreme, and produced and directed the Sid Shanti music video for Phantasm Records. In that same year, he co-founded "The Imaginarium" and "South African Film Finance Corporation" with his partner, Izidore Codron. Under this new banner, Chris produced the National Geographic World War I docudrama, Jungle Navy (2001), for Cinenova Productions, and five episodes of science fiction series Lexx (1996) for the Sci-Fi Channel and Salter Street (1999), shot in Namibia, and the TV movie Rent A Baby (2000) for Pro Sieben/Filmpool, the highest rated movie since 1995.In 2002, he produced the feature films Bone Snatcher - Das Grauen wartet in der Wüste (2003), with First Look Media (the first SA/UK/Can tripartite co-production), and Stander (2003), the largest film in South African history at that time with Seven Arts and Grosvenor Park. Chris followed these with the feature film 3 Needles (2005) under the helm of award-winning director Thom Fitzgerald, and the 22 episode TV-series, Charlie Jade (2005), a Canadian/South African co-production between The Imaginarium and Cinegroupe, in association with Chum City, and in 2004 Chris co-exec produced the critically acclaimed Hotel Rwanda in association with A. Kitman Ho, starring Don Cheadle and directed by Terry George, which went on to be nominated for Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe. in 2005 Chris co-produced the Regis Wargnier directed film Man to Man starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas.In 2006 The Imaginarium and South African Film Finance Corporation disbanded amicably, and Chris launched ZenHQ Films. Under his new banner, Chris produced the feature film 1968 Tunnel Rats, and wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning reality TV series Our House in 2007/8, and wrote and produced the award-winning film Darfur (Attack on Darfur) in 2009. In 2012 Chris wrote, produced, and directed the reality series Clifton Shores (The Shores), and in 2013 and 2014 produced the films The Forgotten Kingdom, which won best film at 15+ international film festivals, Bordering on Bad Behavior, which he also music supervised creating the soundtrack with composer Simon Malherbe, and Die Windpomp (The Windmill), which swept the South African Silver Screen Awards, including best film, and won film festivals in Europe and the US. In 2014 Chris formed My Movies, a sales and distribution company initially started to distribute ZenHQ Films content and later began acquiring third-party content for distribution in Africa, which it continues to do in 2019. In 2015/16 Chris wrote, produced, and directed the feature film Dias Santana. After an unexpected delay, the film is scheduled for release in 2019.Chris has been first assistant director on five films, most recently in 2018 on How I Got There, shot in Kuwait, and Twisted Blues, shot in Dubai, both in temperatures reaching into the mid 40's centigrade! Chris has produced dozens of commercials and actuality programs including such icons as Ford, Pepsi, Asics, B.F. Goodrich, Gammon, Met Life, and Awareness Network, which he also wrote and directed.Chris has been proactive in training aspiring previously disadvantaged filmmakers and, in 2002, created the Spirit Film Scholarship Fund in association with the National Film and Video Foundation, and awarded three-year film school scholarships to three young filmmakers, in addition to mentoring several youths during productions. in 2014 he secured bursaries to attend film school for 25 previously disadvantaged students. - IMDb Mini Biography By: chris@theimaginarium.com

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Chris Roland on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1983 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Chris Roland movies released per year from 1983 till 2020.

Top Genres

Chris Roland works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Action Genre flixes. 26% of Chris Roland movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Chris Roland worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Chris Roland has worked on is 5.8.

5.8 / 10

Chris Roland's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Drama,Fantasy,Mystery
Charlie Jade (2005)

A missing persons detective finds himself caught between three parallel universes.

7.2/1045 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Biography,Crime
Stander (2003)

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

7.1/10111 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy,Romance
Die Windpomp (2014)

Die Windpomp is an endearing, humorous and quirky fantasy love story that revolves around a summer romance in a retirement village between 20 year old Hendri and Margot, with an unexpected twist.

6.8/10114 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.

5.8/1098 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Three soldiers from different countries find themselves trapped in a military base in the Middle East.

5.2/1085 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Action,Drama,War
1968 Tunnel Rats (2008)

During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

4.7/1096 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi
The Bone Snatcher (2003)

After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, scientists find their remains and seek to find what killed them.

4.4/1090 min

Available in 15 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Santana (2020)

Two cops, two brothers. One is out for justice, the other revenge. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.

3.8/10106 min

Available in 1 platform(s).