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Christine Fugate Gig: Producer & Director |
| Christine on the making of The Girl Next Door: After 2 years of searching for the right subject, 22 months of filming, 18 "potential investors," 8 overdrawn credit cards, and 4 offers to direct porn movies, I have completed my journey--an exploration of the exotic world of pornography through the eyes of a young woman from Oklahoma." Christine Fugate began producing and directing documentaries while studying for her Masters in Asian Film and Theater. Her first documentary, Fighting For Our Lives, explored the efforts of Korean women to survive in the International Marketplace of Waikiki, Hawaii. In 1991, Christine formed Café Sisters Productions with Eren McGinnis. Christine directed their first PBS project, The Southern Sex, a playful examination of the myth of the Southern Belle. The Southern Sex won the Director's Choice at the Atlanta Film Festival, the Special Judges Award at the New York Expo, a Bronze Apple at the Educational Media Festival, a Cindy Award, and it screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Christine's second directorial effort, Mother Love, was broadcast on PBS stations on Mother's Day and won a Chris award at the Columbus Film Festival. In 1998, Café Sisters produced Tobacco Blues, an ITVS co-production, that was broadcast on the 1998 POV series. Tobacco Blues also screened at the 1998 Hot Springs Documentary Festival and on board Air Force One for President Clinton and his aides. Prior to her documentary work, Christine worked for director Barbet Schroeder on the Columbia feature, Single White Female. She continued her feature work as Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs at Pacific Rim Productions where she developed and associate produced the HBO thriller, Natural Causes. Christine has a B.A. from Newcomb College and a M.A. from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. She is fluent in Thai and Italian.
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