Christian Holm-Glad has directed and produced numerous long and short features and docs, tv-series, promos and music videos. He has lately also started directing for the stage.
Christian has been nominated seven times and has won one Norwegian Emmy Award ”Gullruten”. He is a veteran of international film festivals, receiving nominations and awards from festivals across the globe including Webby Awards, UKMVA and AmDocs.
He has worked with artists and brands including Kygo, Apple, Calvin Harris, Discovery Channel, Madcon, Xbox, Kano, Serena Maneesh, Kaada, Thirstin Howl III and several others and has had number one hits in the UK and in Norway. After their collaboration, Calvin Harris stated: "He is amazing and all music videos should be directed by him!".
Christian is the founder of production company Bulldozer Film and the art and science edutainment company Science Addiction.
Christian has sung in Norway’s most famous boys’ choir “Sølvguttene” (The Silver-boys) and performed in hundreds of plays at The Norwegian Opera and he has a bronze medal from the Norwegian national championship in rowing . In his late teens, Christian was a host and producer at the Scandinavian version of MTV, ZTV before he went into fashion and design studies.
In 2017 Christian became the first Norwegian in several hundred years to catch the Black Plague. This happened while shooting in Kazakhstan because he took off his safety equipment to get a better shot of an infected rat.
When he is not traveling for a film or theatre project, Christian is either in lively Vienna or on his peaceful farm in Sweden.
Christian is also a co-founder of Long Life Shorts - an initiative to prevent drowning among children in Gambia and surgical lamp company The Bright Light- an initiative to help field surgeons save lives in extreme conditions that is part of lysforgaza.org (lights for Gaza).
More info about Christian at Wikipedia
