Chris Quick, a drama enthusiast from school, initially planned to study economics at university but changed his mind after backpacking in Europe in 2006. He retrained as a video editor and co-founded Quick Off The Mark Productions with his classmate Mark D. Ferguson in October 2009.
The production company provided video production services in Glasgow and covered the Katana Fighting Series from 2010 to 2013. In 2010, Quick, Ferguson, and their classmate Andy S. McEwan wrote their first feature film, In Search of La Che, which premiered at the Glasgow Film Theatre and featured at the American Online Film Awards.
To address the difficulty in finding cast and crew, Quick founded the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance, an online film database, with actor Andrew O'Donnell. He also became a member of BAFTA Scotland and led the campaign to get the New Talent Awards recognized by IMDB.
In 2012, Quick reunited with McEwan to write the short puppet comedy The Greyness of Autumn, which marked his directorial debut. The film enjoyed success at international film festivals before winning the Best Short Comedy accolade at the People of Passion Film Festival in Australia in 2015.
In 2014, Quick directed the short children's film Minion vs. Minion, which was produced with Steve Johnson. In 2015, it was announced that Quick Off The Mark Productions would close due to Ferguson's decision to move to Canada. Quick turned to freelancing full-time and rebranded as Suited Caribou Media.
Quick's first major short film under his new banner was Electric Faces, which he edited and produced for Johnny Herbin. The film earned Herbin a Best Writer nomination at the 2016 Bafta Scotland New Talent Awards. With the exclusion of his own films, Quick claims it is the best production he has ever worked on.
In 2017, Quick returned to work with Herbin on the short war film Mountain, which earned him his first award win in the field of editing at the 2018 Dublin Independent Film Festival. He later received three more nominations at other festivals.
Quick's next big project was a sequel to The Greyness of Autumn, Autumn Never Dies, which was heavily delayed in post-production but was eventually released on World Puppetry Day in 2020. The film received 29 award nominations, winning 16, making it Quick's most successful project to date.
In 2023, Quick produced and edited Care and Repair for his Autumn Never Dies co-star Michael Cooke and later edited the short film Shortbread for Andy S. McEwan.
