Christopher Newby (born 1957, Leeds, England) is a British film director and screenwriter.
He has made several short films, including The Old Man and the Sea, an evocative juxtaposition of marine, religious and body imagery, and Relax (a short film about a gay man awaiting the results of an HIV test, drifting into moments of fantasy[1]).
[2] He directed Anchoress (1993), a tale of paganism versus matriarchal Christianity set in a Surrey village in the early fourteenth century.
[3] In 1995, he directed Madagascar Skin, which starred John Hannah and Bernard Hill.
He has continued to make short films, including Stromboli (1997) and Flicker (2001).