Christopher D. Stewart

Christopher D. Stewart grew up in the "best of places" as he so says, a small town in Tennessee. Even though Christopher was born in Mississippi and that is where most his family still lives, Christopher has always considered Tennessee his home. Christopher first began working with storytelling as a child of 9 when his siblings and he turned their treehouse into an imaginary TV station. That same year Christopher received a super 8 video camera for Christmas, for Christopher, unwrapping that camera was the beginning of what the world knows has 'The Master's Story'. For the next 3 years Christopher shot short films with his siblings and then would show them to his family and start shooting another film. Those 3 years are a time that Christopher recalls as "the prologue of life's story". However, as all prologues should, Christopher's came to an end, and that is where the real story began. 2009: Christopher is shooting another film with his siblings when, to put it in his "that moment of truth hit". Christopher realized that filmmaking was fun, but storytelling was what he loved. This is when Christopher approached his family about making a feature-length film. "I wanted to make something longer with a larger story than that of the 5 minute films we had been making. I wanted a film with a long enough run time that it could give my storytelling a good exercise" said Christopher. "It doesn't take a great storyteller to keep an audience interested for 2 minutes. YouTube has proven that. 95 minutes though, well, that's a completely different story". Christopher spent a year at age 12 developing the story and script for what would soon become his first feature film, Beyond Under. For another year Christopher worked on the production and post-production for Beyond Under, and in May of 2011 it premiered to a modest crowd of around 110 people. That was the first day members of the open public were able to see a piece for 'The Master's Story', although no one knew it...not even Christopher himself. "It wasn't until that summer (the summer of 2011) that the idea of a connected story line first occurred to me" Christopher recalled "I was in a youth church van with my best Riley when suddenly we passed by a road entitled 'Knighthood LN'. Without hesitation Riley and I decided that Knighthood was the title for a Beyond Under sequels. By the time we got off that church van the entire Knighthood story had been outlined". That church van ride was the moment of truth for Christopher, for by the end of that summer Christopher taken the idea of a sequel and ran so far with it that he ended up creating the first four chapters of what would soon be known as 'The Master's Story'.