Kate Plays Christine

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Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-head-and-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ actress Kate Lyn Sheil (HOUSE OF CARDS, THE COLOR WHEEL, YOU'RE NEXT) as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue.

Cast as Christine Chubbuck – a local Florida newscaster who committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on live television in 1974 – Kate travels to Christine’s hometown and candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process to get into the role of Christine. Committed to doing justice to Christine’s life, Kate reveals the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. 
 
KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE boldly challenges its subjects and audience alike to accept that answers from the past are never easy.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sundance Film Festival 2016
True/False Film Festival 2016
Berlin International Film Festival 2016
Vancouver International Film Festival 2016

DIRECTOR’S BIO
Robert Greene’s films include the Gotham Awards–nominated ACTRESS (2014), FAKE IT SO REAL (2012), and KATI WITH AN I (2010). Robert has edited films including QUEEN OF EARTH (2015) and LISTEN UP PHILIP (2014) by Alex Ross Perry, APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (2014) by Amanda Rose Wilder, and CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (2014) by Charles Poekel. Robert writes for Sight & Sound and is the filmmaker-in-chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri.