Filmmaker Fridays with Writer/Director Christine Swanson!

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Filmmaker Fridays with Writer/Director Christine Swanson

After a community watch party of The Clark Sisters, we will host a Q&A with Filmmaker Christine Swanson about her work and experience in the industry.

6:00pm Community Watch Party of The Clark Sisters (Available on Lifetime and to rent on VOD)

Synopsis: "With guidance from their mother, five siblings overcome humble beginnings to form the renowned gospel group the Clark Sisters." Lifetime's Highest-Rated Movie In 4 Years

Feel free to email or tweet us your questions for Christine using the hashtag #watchwithNYCWF. We will use these questions for the top of the Q&A!

7:50pm Quick Break

8:00pm Q&A with Christine Swanson via Zoom (link will be sent)

About the Filmmaker

CHRISTINE SWANSON is a Detroit native, visionary storyteller and multiple award-winning filmmaker. She earned her MFA in Film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, one of the nation’s top-ranked graduate film programs. CNN identified Christine as one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge from NYU’s graduate film program since Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, and Spike Lee (Christine’s NYU directing teacher). She also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame, double majoring in Communications and Japanese.

Christine has developed, written and/or directed movie projects for various companies including HBO Films, Magnolia Pictures, State Street Pictures, TV One, and Faith Filmworks, her own independent film company. Christine has written and/or directed numerous award- winning feature films, television episodes, commercials and short films in her career. Some of her award- winning titles include, Two Seasons (winner HBO Short Film Competition, Sundance selection), All About You (winner Audience Choice Award Chicago International Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize Hollywood Black Film Festival, Festival Award at the Pan African Film Festival, and the Film of the Year Award at the Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Series) starring Renee Elise Goldsberry, Terron Brooks, and Debbie Allen; All About Us (invited to the prestigious Heartland Film Festival, The Chicago International Film Festival, and the Cannes Festival du Film Panafricain) starring Boris Kodjoe, Ryan Bathe, and Ruby Dee; and Woman Thou Art Loosed (Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Blockbuster Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the American Black Film Festival) starring Kimberly Elise and Loretta Devine.

In 2015, Christine received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Television Motion Picture for For the Love of Ruth. Christine also directed three original cable movie premieres for TV One entitled, To Hell and Back (starring Ernie Hudson and Vanessa Bell Calloway), For the Love of Ruth (starring Denise Boutte, Loretta Devine, Gary Dourdan, and James Pickens, Jr.) and Love Under New Management, The Miki Howard Story (starring Teyonah Parris, Darius McCrary, and Gary Dourdan) which broke network ratings as the most watched original movie in network history.

Recently, Christine directed episodes of Chicago PD and FBI for Dick Wolf Films. Her episode of Chicago PD was rated the Best Episode of Season 6. Christine also recently directed the highly anticipated Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel for A&E Networks.

Director’s Reel: vimeo.com/356789172