Christian Vuissa is a Latter-day Saint filmmaker. He is also the founder and head of the LDS Film Festival.

Vuissa is a native of Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and served an LDS mission in Leipzig, Germany from 1994-96. He was involved in the making of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake is a film made in 2006 by Blueshift Entertainment. The film was directed by E.R Nelson and starred Kirby Heyborne and Trenton James. The film won two awards at the Foursite Film Festival. The film was filmed on location in Salt Lake City, Utah.-Plot:New friends Kirk...

. He was the director of Baptists at Our Barbecue, The Errand of Angels

The Errand of Angels

The Errand of Angels is a 2008 American LDS cinema drama film directed and produced by Christian Vuissa who also wrote the screenplay. Starring Erin Chambers, Rachel Emmers and Bettina Schwarz, the film is based on the experiences of Heidi Johnson while working as a missionary in Austria for The...

, One Good Man (2009 film) (originally called Father in Israel), The Letter Writer (2011), and The Reunion.

Vuissa was also the original story creator and the director of the 2002 short drama film Roots and Wings about Mexican immigrants to the United States.

Vuissa is a 2002 graduate of Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

's Media Arts program.