Chris is a M.A. Theater Arts student in the University of the Philippines.

Chris won two Palanca Awards for Literature in 2001 and 2002 for his two full-length plays War Booty  and The Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931.  His second Palanca winning-play with a revised title of Pure Stone is the Source of Light was published by the NCCA through the UBOD Young Author’s Series in 2005. He also wrote a scenario for a cutting edge performance project called Pasyong Mahal ng Halo-Halo na Sukat Ipag-alab ng Damdamin ng Sinumang Kakain Nito (The Passion of the Halo-halo) which premiered in a kitchen laboratory classroom at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños last 2006.

His 58 minutes narrative feature film in Iluko Ti Panagwayaan nga Misyon (The Independence Mission) received an award during the Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 2004. It had its premiere during the 2004 Cinemanila International Film Festival. His 52 minute narrative feature film Lakaran (The Pilgrim’s Journey) was screened for exhibition during the 2^nd Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival (2006)  and the 2006 Cinemanila International Film Festival.

He participated in the 2006 Asian Film Academy fellowship program (AFA) in Pusan, South Korea where he attended a series of filmmaking workshops,  mentoring program in directing and a short film production with established Asian film directors and young Asian filmmakers in 2006. His short filmscript in Kinaray-a The Calling was filmed during the 2006 AFA fellowship program. The Calling premiered in the 13^th Pusan International Film Festival (2006). It was also screened in the Cine Katipunan of the Magnet Café in Quezon City (2007),  the 3^rd Independent Film Festival at the Titus Brandsma Media Center in Quezon City, and the 5^th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in 2009. The Calling won Best Short Film (Digital Lokal) during the 9^th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2007).

Chris won the Ishmael Bernal Award for Most Outstanding Young Filipino Filmmaker  during the 10^th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2008) for his short experimental film Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui, tan Kaamong ya Makakailiw ed Sika: Gurgurlis ed Banua (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who longs for You : Landscape with Figures). The short film was also screened at the University of the Philippines, the Mindanao Film Festival in 2008, and at the Fully Booked – Fort Bonifacio’s Digital Cinema (2009). The short film was also screened in the 2009 Busan Universiade for Digital Contents , the 2009 Jeonju International Film Festival both in South Korea and most recently at the SM Mall in Rosales, Pangasinan (June 2009), the Big Sky Mind (August 2009), the 1^st Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival  (August 2009), and the Titus Brandsma Media Program’s 5^th Pinoy Short Film Festival (August 2009).  The short film is also included in the 2009 S-Express Philippines - a series of public screenings commissioned by The Substation, an independent Arts Space in Singapore. The S-Express began in Singapore  and  tours in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Recently, his first full length digital feature film Anacbanua (The Child of the Sun) won the Digital Lokal Lino Brocka Grand Prize and the Digital Lokal Best Director Award during the 11th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2009).

In 2007, he founded his own independent film company Sine Caboloan.

His directorial credits for the theater  includes Filipino translations of The Maids by Jean Genet (1998), Tango by Slamowir Mrozek (1999), and most recently Hari ng Lansangan  (King of the Road) which he wrote and Chris Millado’s Buwan at Baril (The Moon and the Gun) from 2006 to 2007. He was also a stage actor in the historical drama The Trial by Adrian Cristobal and the kabuki Kanjincho (The Subscription List) by Namiki Gohei both for Dulaang U.P.,  Filipino translation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the contemporary sarswela Paglayang Minamahal both mounted by the Tanghalang Pilipino at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

He is a Pangasinan with Ilocano roots. He was born in the Central Pangasinan town of Bayambang in the northern Philippines.