Chris Newby

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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. He has made several short films, including The Old Man and the Sea, an evocative juxtaposition of marine, religious and body imagery, and Relax, the story of a young man who has just tested positive for HIV, which won the Teddy Award for Best Gay film at 1991 Berlin Film Festival.

His feature films include Anchoress (1993) a tale of paganism versus patriarchal Christianity set in a remote English village in the early fourteenth century. and Madagascar Skin (1995) with John Hannah and Bernard Hill. He has continued to make short films, including Stromboli (1997) and Flicker (2001).

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