Biography

Canadian born, CB started his career at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals as a stage manager and assistant director to acclaimed director Derek Goldby. He then made a career shift, to work in film as an assistant to John Schlesinger on The Believers. In 1988 creators Mark Frost and David Lynch recruited him to work on the critically acclaimed series Twin Peaks. CB has since spent most of his career as a visual effects producer and supervisor, starting with the pioneering visual effects company Boss Film Studios. He was visual effects producer for the features, Outbreak, Waterworld, Turbulence, and Airforce One. He then served as the visual effects supervisor and second unit director for Wing Commander. Next he joined Sassoon Film Design, where he supervised Life is A House, Dark Blue, David Mamet's film Spartan and Irwin Winkler's De Lovely and Lars and the Real Girl. He co-founded 49th Parallel Theatre in Los Angeles with Sara Botsford in 2006 and produced and directed several award winning plays over the course of 8 years. In 2017 he and Sara created, produced, and directed 10 episodes of the award winning web-series Those Damn Canadians. He had the privilege to work on two fantastic series in 2019/20, The Morning Show for Apple and Little Fires Everywhere for Hulu. He is producing and directing new commercials for Flex Seal as well as preparing a new season of Those Damn Canadians.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christopher Brown