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Jack Christian

Film producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ106786451
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Jack Christian is a film and television showrunner, producer, writer and director. He has received critical acclaim for his work in screen entertainment, including two Emmy Award nominations.

Christian is known most recently for his work on the feature films The Florist with Dennis Quaid and Jean Reno, western thriller Killing Faith starring Guy Pearce and Bill Pullman, the Michael Shannon, Eva Longoria dark comedy Dead Guy, horror feature The Beast Within starring Kit Harington, Mercy Road, The Infernal Machine, Sarah Snook horror Run Rabbit Run, comedy Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose starring Simon Pegg, spy actioner Chief of Station, the Diane Keaton lead comedy Arthur's Whisky, action thriller Classified, the Netflix series Dive Club, as well as the Amazon crime series,Troppo.

Christian is Founder and CEO of global film and television production and finance company Filmology Finance, and its production arm, Filmology Features. He is the chairman of the Australian Film Institute and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

It was announced on April 22, 2024, that Christian is producing upcoming Mckenna Grace YA feature film, Everything I Never Did.

Filmography

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Leadership

Jack Christian joined the board of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) in 2020. The AFI governs the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), an organization established in 2011 to honor excellence in film, television, and screen arts through its annual awards. Christian became chairman on November 20, 2023. He assumed a pivotal role in steering AACTA's mission to promote Australia screen storytelling worldwide.

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“Jack Christian” enters the record as film producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jack, Christian and Film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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