Christine Fugate

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Christine Fugate
Born Los Angeles, California
OccupationFilmmaker, director, writer
Genre Documentary Films, Independent films, interviews, journalism, television
Notable worksTobacco Blues (1998), Grief Becomes Me (2006)
Notable awardsShowbiz Data's Top 100 Directors
Website
christinefugate.com

Christine Fugate (born 1964) [1] is an American film director of documentary films, writer, and professor of film at Chapman University. [2]

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Fugate is known for her documentaries and independent films. She is also a journalist, interviewer, and author of Mothering Heights, a column which was published in the Laguna Beach Independent. [3] 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. She completed a Master of Fine Arts in Asian film and theater at the University of Hawaiʻi, 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.

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.

In the late 1990s, Fugate produced and directed a series of independent films, including The Southern Sex (1992), Mother Love (1996), Tobacco Blues (1998) [4] and The Girl Next Door (1999). [5] [6] 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). [7]

Filmography

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