Through his company, Breaking Branches Pictures (est. 1996), Christian de Rezendes has produced critically acclaimed feature films including 41, a doc about the youngest victim of the Station Nightclub Fire, Getting Out of Rhode Island, a fully improvised dramedy feature, Alzira's Story, a family inspired doc, and Raising Matty Christian, a doc about a man born without full limbs whose accomplishments inspired thousands, which received 10 festival awards and can be seen on Tubi, Prime, Apple TV and Youtube Movies. 

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Christian's other notable works include several short films, such as Memories for Sale, Revealed: Portraits from Beneath One's Surface, Cat Scratch, Zach: A Film About Epilepsy and Fred and Emile, a short about the first LGBTQ couple of be married in Lowell, Massachusetts, which aired on WGBH Boston, as well as music videos for musicians Eric Barao, Stefan Couture and Ed Sweeney.  To date, his work has received more than 40 filmmaking awards. Many of his twenty plus directing credits have been broadcast on PBS and screened internationally at film festivals. 

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In the fall of 2022, after 11 years of production, the first half of his documentary series Slatersville: America's First Mill Village premiered on Rhode Island PBS and now streams internationally on Tubi, Prime, Youtube Movies and PBS Documentaries.  

 

Across its first two seasons (episodes 1-8, in 2023 and 2025), Slatersville received 3 Regional Boston/New England Emmy® Awards, 2 for Outstanding Musical Composition/Arrangement to Composer Stephen Gilbane, and 1 for Direction of Longform Content to Christian. The series was also nominated for Outstanding Documentary and Long Form Editing.  It also received 1 Gold Telly and 2 Bronze Tellys for Documentary Series and 4 awards from Block Island Film Festival, Mass Indie Film Fest and LifeArt Festival. In addition, Christian was honored with the John H. Chafee Award from the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. The third and final season (episodes 9, 10 and 11) are now in post-production.