Chris Chan Roberson is a 20-year veteran filmmaker and college professor.

He has been teaching cinematography, producing, and editing at Tisch School of the Arts since 1999 and served as NYU’s Executive Director of Post Production for over two years. He served as the Freshman Area Head for 10 years.

Chris was a contributing writer for Comic Book Resources. He also edits professionally and has worked with such talents as Sting, Billy Eichner, Nick Kroll and Christian McBride. Chris edited for the YouTube channel The Things and Screen Rant, and produced content for Kung Fu Tea and the New-York Historical. In 2006, Chris won a Telly Award for his editing work with Robert Small Entertainment, where he edited for Comedy Central, Nick at Nite and The Biography Channel.

From 2012 through July 2014, Chris worked at YouTube as a Lead Producer. He helped emerging partners devise channel strategy, increase production value, and develop their brand. On a regular basis Chris worked with such YouTube channels as The Key of Awesome and VSauce3.

In 2014, Chris conducted a TEDx Talk, titled “Modern Mavericks”.

Since 2020, Chris has had the pleasure of being a writer and director for Theater Breaking Through Barriers, writing short plays that have been performed over zoom as well as live on stage.

In 2023, Chris made his feature film debut with Eleanor Slaughter. The film won awards at over 24 festivals, including Best Picture at the Atlanta Movie Awards, Best Music at the London Movie Awards, and Best Editing at the Florence Film Awards.

Chris, along with his producing partner, Thom Woodley, formed Unprecious Studios in 2024, an independent media company that currently is focusing on vertically shot micro-dramas.

In 2026, Chris completed a run of his second one-man show entitled Hemeroscopium performed at Under St. Marks for the NY Fringe Festival. The first one-man show was Magnetic Dragons back in 2020, also for the NY Fringe Festival.