I make commercials and trailers that play like cinema.

I'm Christopher Schlierf, a director and cinematographer for commercials, game trailers and genre films. Making things has always been how I express myself: comics at school, lead singer in a rock band, then fashion photography and independent films.

After graduating in film and animation in 2009, I won a scholarship to Hollywood and worked at Constantin Film and Warner Bros. before moving into commercials as a director. In 2015 I founded Directors Duo, a studio at the edge of technology for commercials, film and game trailers.

Since then I have worked on more than a hundred productions worldwide: a sequence for Marvel's Ant-Man, trailers for Assassin's Creed, Just Cause, Rocket League and League of Legends, the campaign opening for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and films for BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac and Porsche.

What drives me is bringing the Hollywood toolbox to every brief: thrilling storytelling, big-scope images, genre set pieces and layered worlds. Development, writing, working with actors, camera, editing, VFX and music all come from one hand, so fewer ideas get lost between departments and more of them end up on screen.