Christen H. Marquez

Producer - Four Episodes

Oxygen / NBC Universal

Season 1

Broadcast Fall of 2019

Lies told by some people will be protected at any cost, including murder. Each stand alone episode takes you on the journey of each case as investigators unravel each complex case of these horrendous tragedies, all to protect the lie.

Show Producer

CNN / Bright Road Productions and All 3 Media

Season 4 - The Real D.C.

Broadcast Spring of 2019

The Emmy Award winning CNN Original Series “United Shades of America” follows comedian and political provocateur W. Kamau Bell as he explores communities across America to understand the unique challenges they face.

Co-Directed with Ciara Lacy

Feature Documentary

In-Production

The Ninth Island is a feature documentary feature film following Hawaiian families as they move from the islands to so called "Ninth Island", Las Vegas, Nevada in pursuit of a better economic future. 

Story Producer

Netflix / Film45

Seasons 1 and 2

2016 - 2017

QB1: Beyond The Lights Season One is a ten-part docu-series about three of the nation’s top high school quarterbacks, Jake Fromm, Tate Martell, and Tayvon Bowers. We take viewers inside the game, lives and minds of the athletes, from the parents who sacrifice everything to devoted communities that fill the stands every Friday night.

Now streaming on Verizon's go90 via Complex Networks' Rated Red.

Producer

Discovery Networks / Mad Jack Entertainment

Season 1 - Three Episodes

2015

Families across the nation are on the brink of destruction as their lives have been hijacked by a criminal loved one... this is their BREAKING POINT. This reality series features subjects who believe they are participating in a documentary about their life of crime. What they don't know is they will soon face a criminal intervention that offers only two choices: accept treatment or face the possibility of prison time. 

Director, Producer, Camera Operator

Nat Geo / Electus

Seasons 1 - 3

2014 - 2016

Follow the Sheriff Deputies of Sullivan County, TN and Ashe County, NC as they work to keep the peace in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Get an unprecedented look into crime in Appalachia, where guns, drugs and alcohol challenge lawmen 24/7.

Producer, Additional Camera

Feature Documentary

In-Production

Belly of the Beast intimately chronicles the journey of women fighting reproductive injustice in their communities.

Director, Producer, Additional Camera

Feature Length Documentary

Nationally Broadcast

ITVS / Pacific Islanders in Communications / PBS Hawaiʻi

2014

Filmmaker Christen Hepuakoa Marquez was born in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Christen's family deteriorated when her mother Elena was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and as a young girl she moved to Seattle with her father and brothers. After nearly 20 years of living in the continental U.S., Christen returns to Hawai'i to learn the meaning of her incredibly long Hawaiian name from her estranged mother.

In Hawaiian culture, you don't give a name, you haku inoa. Haku means "to weave," and inoa is the Hawaiian word for "name." For Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), a name is often considered a sacred extension of a person's identity. Words are artfully woven together to create a poem celebrating the namesake's heritage and destiny. Elena created Christen's name and is the only person who knows its true meaning.

Christen doggedly pursues this piece of her identity, struggling through tears and misunderstandings to unlock the mystery not only of her name, but also of her mother.

Producer

Narrative Feature

2012

Audience Award Best Feature LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

Best Cinematography LA Asian Film Festival

Two Shadows launches Cambodian-American hipster wannabe Sovanna (SOPHEA PEL) into an unexpected odyssey of self-discovery. After she opens a cryptic letter from Cambodia claiming that her long-lost brother and sister are still alive, Sovanna travels to her birthplace alone to seek out her two siblings who disappeared during the civil war 20 years earlier. Upon discovering a girl who may or may not be her real sister, Sovanna is ensnared into an increasingly dangerous situation, pitting her in a tug-of-war between her own personal safety, and her compassion for a stranger.

www.twoshadowsmovie.com

Camera and Sound Recordist

PBS / WGBH Boston

2013

Jorge dropped out of school to help his family, picking lettuce in the fields of Salinas, California, for five years. Rancho Cielo brought him back to school and a pathway to better job opportunities.

Director, Camera Operator

Online

2012

Los Angeles duo Indradevi, the ferocious new face of high octane electronic music, lashes out with a unique incarnation of drum n' bass, jungle, hip hop and industrial with an unexpected injection of Southeast Asia. Following a successful club tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, the duo hit the studio to produce their first record.

Indradevi's debut album "A Thousand Tomorrows" calls to mind the
frenetic energy of The Prodigy balanced by the cinematic melancholia of The Glitch Mob, all served with generous helpings of classic melodies and tones from Southeast Asia.

Barong and Rangda of Indradevi were initially inspired by Cambodian rock n' roll of the 1960's and 1970's, particularly by singers Ros Serey Sothea and Sinn Sisamouth. Sadly, most Cambodian musicians of this era were murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime during the genocide of 1975-1979. "A Thousand Tomorrows" is dedicated to the memory of these musicians.

www.indradevi.net