{{short description|American journalist (born 1964)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox writer | name = Christine Fugate | image = | image_size = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Los Angeles, California | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Filmmaker, director, writer, professor | period = | genre = Documentary Films, Independent films, interviews, journalism, television | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Tobacco Blues'' (1998), ''Grief Becomes Me'' (2006) | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Showbiz Data's Top 100 Directors | signature = | website = {{URL|christinefugate.com}} | portaldisp = }}
'''Christine Fugate''' is an American film producer and director who has filmed across the globe, making projects in Thailand, Malawi, Australia and Great Britain.<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm5rK0DSsg8 |title=Christine Fugate; Filmmaker {{!}} Creators in Motion |date=2023-08-28 |last=Portrait Displays |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
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''.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2008/1003/columns/040.html |title = Mothering Heights | www.lagunabeachindependent.com | Laguna Beach Independent |access-date = October 11, 2008 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090726011512/http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2008/1003/columns/040.html |archive-date = July 26, 2009 }}</ref> 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''. She also writes short stories which have appeared in several short story collections including in "Beach Reads: Adrift" and "Beach Reads: Paradise".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amazon Author Page: Christine Fugate |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christine-Fugate/author/B08PTKK3S8?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624212830/https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christine-Fugate/author/B08PTKK3S8?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 24, 2024 |website=Amazon.com}}</ref>
==Life== Fugate was born in Los Angeles and raised in Lexington, Kentucky.<ref name=":0" /> She completed her undergraduate education at Tulane University where she studied history, and went on to earn a Master of Arts in Asian film and theater at the University of Hawaiʻi. She studied the Thai language and researched her thesis, ''The Power to Choose: Women in Thai Film, 1975–1990,'' while interning in the Thai film industry. After completing her master's degree, she moved to Thailand where she co-directed her first narrative feature film "สาวขี้อาย" ("Shy Girl").<ref name=":0" />
She returned to Los Angeles in the 1990s to continue her work as a filmmaker.
==Career== Fugate began her Hollywood 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)<ref name="Goodman 1998">{{cite web | last = Goodman | first = Walter | title = TELEVISION REVIEW; When Good People Grow a Dangerous Plant | website = The New York Times | date = June 9, 1998 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/arts/television-review-when-good-people-grow-a-dangerous-plant.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171220031119/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/arts/television-review-when-good-people-grow-a-dangerous-plant.html | archive-date = December 20, 2017 | url-status = live | access-date = June 7, 2018 }}</ref> and ''The Girl Next Door'' (1999).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.der.org/films/girl-next-door.html | title = DER Documentary – The Girl Next Door | access-date = October 31, 2008 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081101103438/http://www.der.org/films/girl-next-door.html | archive-date = November 1, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Stamets 2000">{{cite web | last = Stamets | first = Bill | title = Porn star documentary reveals little | via = HighBeam Research | date = May 5, 2000 | url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4544926.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141747/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4544926.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 12, 2018 | access-date = June 7, 2018 }}</ref>
Tobacco Blues was screened on board Air Force One for President Bill Clinton.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Christine Fugate on Baby Films |url=https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/christine_fugate_on_baby_films |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=www.focusfeatures.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, the film was added to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.<ref>{{Citation |last=Fugate |first=Christine |title=Tobacco Blues |url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-359-655dvdvw |access-date=2024-06-24 |others=KET, Harry Dean Stanton |publisher=KET |language=en}}</ref>
Fugate's feature-length documentary ''The Girl Next Door'' (1999) about "Oklahoma native Stacy Valentine's rise to stardom in the adult film industry", had a successful theatrical run in over 25 cities throughout the US and Canada" and landed Fugate on ShowBizData's list of Top Directors.<ref name=":1" />
Fugate went on the road with rock band KISS, directing an episode of VH1's ''FanClub'' about them (2000).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christine Fugate {{!}} Producer, Director, Writer |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297543/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> She also directed the pilot for the Discovery series, ''Reconcilable Differences'' (2003)''.''<ref>{{Citation |title=Reconcilable Differences |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389676/?ref_=nm_flmg_c_1_wr |access-date=2024-06-24 |publisher=GRB Entertainment}}</ref>
In 2005, she 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).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.griefbecomesme.com/ | title = Grief Becomes Me | access-date = September 28, 2008 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080725011437/http://www.griefbecomesme.com/ | archive-date = July 25, 2008}}</ref>
Fugate produced, wrote and directed ''Queen Moorea'' (2022), a documentary that follows six years in the life of Laguna Beach High School homecoming queen Moorea Howson and her life with Williams Syndrome.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-25 |title=Professor's Documentary Follows Life of 'Queen Moorea', Screens at Sundance |url=https://news.chapman.edu/2022/10/25/professors-documentary-follows-life-of-queen-moorea/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=Chapman Newsroom |language=en}}</ref> The cinéma vérité film "shares an intimate look into the gifts and struggles of growing up with a disability in America."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://queenmoorea.com/about |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=Queen Moorea - a film by Christine Fugate |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Queen Moorea'' premiered at the Coast Film Festival and screened at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film also had an international festival run, screening at the Courage Film Festival in Berlin, the Twelve Lions Festival, the Spain International Film Festival and the Anchorage International Film Festival, among others.<ref name=":2" />
Fugate is an assistant professor of film at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. She is fluent in Italian and was recently invited to be a fellow of the Ferucci Institute (2024).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Team |url=https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/ferrucci-institute/about-us/ferrucci-fellows.aspx |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=www.chapman.edu |language=en}}</ref>
She lives in Orange County, California,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stowe Story Labs Announces Roster for Stowe's Narrative Lab |url=https://stowestorylabs.org/news/stowe-story-labs-announces-roster-for-narrative-lab-2024 |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=Stowe Story Labs |language=en-US}}</ref> and has two children. She maintains a low public profile.
==Filmography== * ''The Southern Sex'' (1992) * ''Mother Love'' (1996)<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Mannis | first = Valerie | date = October 31, 2000 | title = Constructing the Mothering Experience: Videos on Motherhood | url = https://www.proquest.com/openview/9affab2266b50c0f75cc3bc2d499fc65/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27053 | journal = Feminist Collections | volume = 22 | issue = 1 | pages = 12 | id = {{ProQuest|221186202 }} | access-date = June 8, 2018 }}</ref> * ''Tobacco Blues'' (1998)<ref name="Koch 1998">{{cite news | last1 = Koch | first1 = John | title = 'Tobacco' doesn't reach far enough | url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8482123.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135941/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8482123.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 12, 2018 | access-date = June 6, 2018 | publisher = Boston Globe | via = HighBeam | date = June 9, 1988}}</ref><ref name="ClodfelterLeaf">{{cite news | last1 = Clodfelter | first1 = Tim | title = Documentary Tells Stories of 4 Families Trying to Preserve Their Way of Leaf | publisher = Winston Salem Journal | date = June 13, 1988 | id = {{ProQuest|370429811}} }}</ref><ref name="PevereLife">{{cite news | last1 = Pevere | first1 = Geoff | title = Unrestricted access to an unrestricted life | publisher = Toronto Star | date = July 14, 2014 | id = {{ProQuest|438137141}} }}</ref><ref name="Lawrence Crop">{{cite news | last1 = Lawrence | first1 = Robert | title = For growers, tobacco is a way of life, not just a crop | publisher = The San Diego Union – Tribune | date = June 9, 1998 | id = {{ProQuest|271599618}} }}</ref> * ''The Girl Next Door'' (1999)<ref name="HowePorn">{{cite news | last1 = Howe | first1 = Desson | title = 'The Girl Next Door': A Star in Porn | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = June 13, 2003 | id = {{ProQuest|409463567}} }}</ref><ref name="SiegalDoor">{{cite news | last1 = Siegel | first1 = Joel | title = Sex, Lives, and Videotape; Capturing the Friedmans; The Girl Next Door | publisher = Washington City Paper | date = June 19, 2003 | id = {{ProQuest|362676152}} }}</ref><ref name="Zebrowski">{{cite news | last1 = Zebrowski | first1 = John | title = Porn expose 'The Girl Next Door' is more sad than sexy | work = The Seattle Times | date = September 8, 2000 | id = {{ProQuest|383381368}} }}</ref><ref name="DoorDavid">{{cite news | last1 = David | first1 = Eliot | title = Getting to know her; Porn actress is the 'Girl Next Door | publisher = San Diego Union – Tribune | date = June 1, 2000 | id = {{ProQuest|271698316}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/14/movies/film-review-when-heavy-breathing-is-a-job-requirement.html | title = FILM REVIEW; When Heavy Breathing Is a Job Requirement | last = Holden | first = Stephen | date = April 14, 2000 | work = The New York Times | access-date = June 7, 2018 | issn = 0362-4331 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180505210207/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/14/movies/film-review-when-heavy-breathing-is-a-job-requirement.html | archive-date = May 5, 2018}}</ref> * ''Grief Becomes Me'' (Short Film) (2006) * ''Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story'' (2009) * ''Queen Moorea'' (2022)
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090125025842/http://christinefugate.com/index.html Official Website] * {{IMDb name|0297543}}
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