Christine Fugate

Christine Fugate
Occupation	Filmmaker, Director, Writer
Nationality	American
Genres	Documentary Films, Independent Films, Interviews, Journalism, Television
Notable work(s)	Tobacco Blues (1998), Grief Becomes Me (2006)
Notable award(s)	Showbiz Data's Top 100 Directors
Influences Asian Cinema
http://www.motheringheights.net/ christinefugate.com/, http://www.motheringheights.net/

Christine Fugate (born December 12, 1963) is an American film director specializing in documentaries and independent films. She is also a journalist, interviewer, and author of Mothering Heights, a now monthly online column also published in the Laguna Beach Independent.^[1] In 2008, she edited a collection of essays by women sharing diverse perspectives on the same subject, The Mothering Heights Manual for Motherhood, Volume I.

Life

Fugate was born in Los Angeles in 1963. She completed a Master of Fine Arts in Asian film and theater at the University of Hawaii, and her thesis, The Power to Choose: Women in Thai Film, 1975-1990, is on file at the university's library. She returned to Los Angeles in the nineties to begin her work as a filmmaker. Fugate married in 2000 and is a mother of two children.

Career

Fugate began her career in 1990 as French director Barbet Schroeder's assistant for the film, Single White Female. Subsequently she worked as Creative Vice President for Pacific Rim Productions where she was an Associate Producer on the HBO film, Natural Causes, in 1994.^[2]

In the late 1990s, Fugate produced and directed a series of independent films, including The Southern Sex (1992), Mother Love (1996), Tobacco Blues (1998), and The Girl Next Door (1999). Fugate rendered the poetry of writer Donna Hilbert for the screen in Grief Becomes Me (2005), which premiered at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Fugate went on to create a biopic connecting Hilbert's life and work, titled Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story (2009).^[3]

Filmography

• The Southern Sex (1992)
• Mother Love (1996)
• Tobacco Blues (1998)
• The Girl Next Door (1999)
• Grief Becomes Me (Short Film) (2006)
• Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story (2009)

References

1. ^ ""Mothering Heights Column", Laguna Beach Independent.
2. ^ "Imdb Christine Fugate Filmography".
3. ^ "Grief Becomes Me Website".

External links

• Official Website
• Christine Fugate at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Girl Next Door," Documentary Educational Resources
• "The Southern Sex," New York Times review summary
• Mothering Heights Website
• "Mothering Heights column" at Laguna Beach Independent
• "Moving Past Her Pain," Coastline Pilot

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Name	Fugate, Christine
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Date of birth	December 12, 1963
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
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