Career
Christopher J. Barfoot is an award winning writer/producer and director from Southampton, England. His filmmaking career began when (the then bit-part television actor) teamed up with editor Peter Dobson creating television Sketches for London Weekend Television ( Independent Television) with Jeremy Beadle and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright in 1994 before casting Prunella Scales in the Sciences Fi mini-thriller Phoenix (1997). Winning two United States Platinum Remis for Phoenix and then Hellion and two Gold Remis with fellow writer/producer Robert Clother, for Dead Clean (starring Andrew Sachs and Shane Richie) and The Reckoning (starring, Mark Chapman, Susie Lumley, Lex van Delden) led Barfoot to write a spate of feature movie screenplays.
Barfoot and Clother received an ‘Honorable mention’ at the Dragon Con film festival for The Reckoning in 2003.
The film was broadcast by National Broadcasting Company Universal"s Sciences Fi Channel until 2008, where it received their highest viewing figures of all time. In 2007 Barfoot directed interactive web commercials (digital marketing) for Graphico New Media.
His clients included Pepsi Company
After a decade engaged on solo projects Barfoot and Clother have formed ‘Hot Head Creative’ (2015) a production company based in Winchester, England, United Kingdom. Barfoot also maintains an interest in Anglo American Pictures.