Christiano Dias is an award winning filmmaker who was born in Brazil and raised in Texas. He’s of the VHS/DVD generation and fell in love with movies at around twelve years old after being given and old miniDV camcorder.

Chris has written, directed, produced, and edited over 50 combined short films and commercials, many of which have won accolades including the CINE Golden Eagle, MUSE Award (Platinum and Gold), and Worldfest Remi Award (9 times). He's won multiple Best Director Awards at LAIFFA (Los Angeles International Film Festival Awards) and 4 Cannes Short Film Corner market acceptances (2012-2015, 2017). He was also a Lonestar Emmy Award Nominee for Directing a college run tv show (Story) at the age of 19 among countless other short film awards. He's on The Texas Film Commission's IMDB list of Top 25 Texas Directors.

His imaginative coming-of-age short film, King Eternal was distributed on DIRECTV via the ShortsHD Channel and breathless ‘one shot take’ short film, Monster in a House was also distributed before being released online; it was also featured in the ‘Short Takes’ section of American Cinematographer.

His past three short films have appeared in Moviemaker Magazine (King Eternal, 2013), American Cinematographer (Monster in a House, July 2016 Issue), and IndieWire (Hurricane, 2017). His 1950s Cold War satire, Hurricane is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from The University of North Texas with a focus on Screenwriting and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from New York Film Academy, where he graduated with Honors and Distinction.

He’s writing a series of short film proof of concept projects and a several features, Snake Oil and Dream Machine (working titles).