Christopher Toyne is a producer, multi-cam director, and associate director with extensive experience in various aspects of media production. He has recently completed producing the independent feature White Air (2007) with Riley Smith, Dominique Swain, and Tom Sizemore.
Throughout 2005, he returned to his passion for music programming as the supervising producer in New York of The Roots Present (2005) for Geffen Records and MTV Networks, as well as Look Up Sing Out... Power (2005) and Nothing Without You (2005) for EMI Gospel, all shot in High Definition.
As Head of Production for Sunrise Entertainment Inc, Nashville, he produced four record-breaking HD concert specials: The John Entwistle Band: Live (2004); Fabulous Thunderbirds: Invitation Only (2003),the first HD live streaming Web-cast in wide-screen; "The Moffatts: Wild At Heart" (1999),the first multi-camera HD production in all of Canada; and Living Legends of Rock & Roll: Live from Itchycoo Park (2000),featuring over 30 acts and the most extensive library of Heritage Bands in HD.
Christopher was also line producer on the ill-fated Domestic Goddess (2003) with Roseanne Barr for ABC Network and ABC Family. In 2002, he returned to his love of documentary-style production as US coordinating producer of "The Mysteries Of The Parthenon" (2002) for the BBC and Discovery Channels, and as coordinating producer of "Kings Valley Tomb 17: The Secret Treasure Of Pharaoh Seti I" (2002) for NBC and ZDF, the first material to be shot in HD in Egypt's Upper Nile region of Thebes.
He produced Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998) with additional credited line-producer, acting, and UPM duties. A 2-hour dramatic TV movie depicting the last year in the life of the iconic Princess, it was shot entirely on the versatile island of Mallorca, Spain, depicting 10 countries and 52 locales.
Christopher acted as Supervising Executive Producer and 2nd unit director on the high-profile PBS pledge special George Winston: Seasons in Concert (1996),also featuring legend Chet Atkins. Shot in Maui, Montana, and Tennessee, it is still available on DVD.
Other credits include "98Degrees-And Rising"; "Barnum's KaleidOscape"; "The 25th International Monte Carlo Circus Festival"; First International Circus Arts Festival in Budapest (2000); "Fleetwood Mac - Live at the MGM Grand Garden"; "The Magic World Of Beto Carrero" (Brazil); "The USAPetite Model Show: Live from Caesar's"; Engelbert Humperdinck: Blazing a Silver Trail (1993); "The Great American Screen Test" and "Royal Polo From Windsor Park."
Prior to settling in the US, Christopher worked on film archival projects with the Royal Navy, producing expeditions across the Saudi Peninsular, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Central Africa. He also worked on special assignments with the US Navy, tours with the British Royal Family, and documentary views of Hong Kong's Vietnamese Boat People crisis.
Christopher's first full producer credit was for "Prisoners Of Conscience: The Russian Connection," a dramatized look at the plight of the Jewish 'efusniks' in the Soviet Union for WNET-NY. He trained at the BBC in both dramatic and multi-camera techniques and worked his way up the production ladder as a freelancer.
