PanopticonNYC is the home for Christopher Piazza’s work as a director, director of photography and Emmy Award winning camera operator.  Piazza has been directing and shooting for over fifteen years, and has worked on major network television shows, stadium sized live concerts, broadcast commercials, independent webseries, corporate presentations and everything in between.

Piazza has directed branded content for Grubhub, Titos Vodka, and World Central Kitchen, corporate presentations for Yahoo Finance, Axios, MoviePass, and commercials for the USDA and Ad Council, Audi and Volkswagen.

He is the director of the acclaimed music series Live From Daryl’s House, featuring Daryl Hall from Hall & Oates. He directs the main stage of the Newport Folk Festival which has featured Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Lana Del Ray. He directs EDC Las Vegas and Lost Lands, which showcase the hottest EDM acts in the world. He also directs the long running music series Live From My Den presented by The Artists Den featuring artists Jack Johnson, Sofi Tukker, Yard Act and many more.

His short films Baby Won’t You Please Come Home and Still Together played at over a dozen film festivals a piece. Baby Won’t You Please Come Home was a semi-finalist for Oscar qualification and the winner of the audience award at the Bermuda International Film Festival. Still Together won audience awards at Other Worlds Austin and Brooklyn Horror Festival and was featured on Bloody Disgusting’s anthology series Bloody Bites.

As a camera operator, he recently won an Emmy for Outstanding Technical Direction and Camera Work for the Billy Joel 100 special on CBS. He has focused mostly on live music, having been a part of hundreds of live shows for artists such as Beyonce, Eminem, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Kendrick Lamar, Dave Matthews Band, Travis Scott, Bruce Springsteen and many more.

His work as a director of photography ranges from commercial to television to live music. Piazza has DP-ed over twenty episodes of the FYI original series Tiny House Hunting, and has also shot for Househunters International and Selling NY. He also shot a series of over a dozen national ads for DirecTV, and has DP-ed numerous internet based pieces of commercial content for Nike, eSurance, Heineken, Pandora Radio and many other brands. Piazza has also DP-ed music related videos for talent such as Thom Yorke, BLACKPINK, Peter Gabriel and many more.

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