{{Short description|American filmmaker and environmental activist}} {{similar names|Chris Payne (disambiguation){{!}}Chris Payne}} {{Multiple issues| {{unreliable sources|date=September 2018}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2018}} }}
right|thumb|Paine '''Chris Paine''' is an American filmmaker and environmental activist. His notable works as director include the documentaries ''Who Killed the Electric Car?'', ''Revenge of the Electric Car'' and ''Do You Trust This Computer?'' Paine received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for ''Who Killed the Electric Car?''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/wga-unveils-nominees-for-documentary-screenplay-award/4030285.article|title=WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award|last=Kay|first=Jeremy|date=16 January 2007|website=Screen Daily|accessdate=20 February 2019}}</ref>
==Career== Paine served as Executive Producer on the documentaries ''Faster'', ''William Gibson: No Maps for these Territories'' and Charge directed by Mark Neale and [http://www.bikes-vs-cars.com Bike vs Cars] directed by Fredrik Gertten. Other producing projects include MTV Europe's ''Buzz'' and shorts including ''Mailman'' and ''Zoo Life''. Paine worked for writer/director Michael Tolkin on the feature films ''The Rapture'', ''The Player,'' and ''The New Age''.
==Environment== Chris serves on the board of directors for Friends of the Earth and worked on campaigns to end nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site and to stop a freeway with a proposed Tunnel in northern California. In 2010, his team won three Webby awards for [http://counterspill.org Counterspill] an online project about fossil fuel energy spills.
==Education== Paine studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, and film at New York University and Stanford University. He is a graduate of Colgate University.
==Entrepreneur== In 1984, with high-school classmate Roger Gilbertson, Paine co-founded Mondo-tronics, which designed an actuator for the Mars Pathfinder mission and sold materials direct to the public as "The Robot Store".<ref>{{cite web|last=Needles|first=Tim|title=Director Chris Paine on his Film Who Killed The Electric Car|url=http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/2011/06/director-chris-paine-on-his-film-who-killed-the-electric-car/|work=Short and Sweet NYC|date=14 June 2011 |accessdate=23 January 2012}}</ref> In 1994, Chris founded Internet Outfitters which he took public as part of Commerce One in 2000.
==Filmography== Director: *"Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) *"Revenge of the Electric Car" (2011) *"Do You Trust This Computer?" (2018)<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Musk |first=Elon |author-link=Elon Musk |user=elonmusk |number=982119546420002817 |date=6 April 2018 |title=Nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence. Watch Chris Paine's new AI movie for free until Sunday night at https://t.co/WehHcZX7Qe |language=en |access-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427162115/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/982119546420002817 |archive-date=27 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/263108265|title=Private video on Vimeo}}</ref>
Executive Producer: *"Bikes vs Cars" (2015) *Charge (2010) *Faster (2003) *No Maps for These Territories (2001)
Miscellaneous Crew: *''The New Age'' (1994) *''The Player'' (1992)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|2071216}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081204060522/http://www.papercutfilms.com/about/ Papercut Films, the California-based production company for Chris Paine]
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