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Chris Wright

Biography

Chris Wright was born in the Northern English town of Bolton, studied in Cambridge and then at film school in Babelsberg. Since the mid-90s, he’s lived in Berlin, working as an editor and documentary-maker. 

 

His recent credits include Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden (Sundance, Berlinale Forum 2021) and Thomas Heise’s Heimat is a Space in Time (Berlinale 2019, awards worldwide), which won him a nomination for the VG Bildkunst Editing Award. In 2017 he won the German Camera Prize in the category best feature-length editing for Susanne Binninger’s Fighter. In 2024 he was nominated for the German Television Prize, together with Janine Dauterich, for their work on the Netflix series Till Murder Do Us Part. 

 

He teaches the documentary course at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) and works as editing consultant on documentaries and fiction films. In 2020 he joined the tutor team of dok incubator.

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Peter Badel, Chris Wright, 2026

DE | 120'

In 2023 renowned documentary maker Thomas Heise begins a film on Berlin’s Schönhauser Allee, the road he lived on for decades. After his unexpected death, his team continues the work.