Country: USA
Year: 2016
Duration: 110'
The actress Kate Lyn Sheil has to play a very difficult role in her next movie: that of Christine Chubbuck, the TV journalist who killed herself in 1974 during a live news broadcast. A one-of-a-kind event in the history of television. The documentary filmmaker Robert Greene follows the actress in her difficult task of identifying with the journalist, during the shooting of the movie, makeup sessions, discussions with her mother and her increasingly painful attempt to portray on the screen the story and the feelings of a woman about whom almost nothing is known, except for that desperate act. [cg]
Biography
film director
Robert Greene
Robert Greene (NC, USA, 1976) is a director, film editor and movie critic. He debuted in directing with the short The Rehobeth Trilogy (2002), which was followed by Ye Are the Light of the World (Don’t Stare into the Sun) (2003), Six Videos about Tourism (2003), Sports: A 12 Part History (2005), and One Dead in Ohio (2006). He later directed the documentaries Owning the Weather (2009), screened at the UN Climate Change Conference, and Kati with an I (2010), the short Dry Biscuit (2011) and Fake It So Real (2012). He took part to the international documentary competition at the Torino Film Festival 2014 with Actress.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Rehobeth Trilogy (cm, doc., 2002), Ye Are the Light of the World (Don’t Stare into the Sun) (cm, doc., 2003), Six Videos about Tourism (cm, doc., 2003), Sports: A 12 Part History (cm, doc., 2005), One Dead in Ohio (cm, doc., 2006), Owning the Weather (doc., 2009), Kati with an I (doc., 2010), Dry Biscuit (cm, doc., 2011), Fake It So Real (doc., 2012), Actress (doc., 2014), Kate Plays Christine (doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“I’ve been trying to make a film about Christine Chubbuck for nearly a decade, but I could never imagine a traditional documentary portrait. I didn’t want to make a straightforward story about a woman who committed suicide on live television […]. After my last movie Actress, however, I found a way in – by jumping into the murky waters between performance and documentary, I found a method that I thought might help me express that unknowable quality of Christine Chubbuck’s actions, without resorting to easy answers.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, story, screenplay, film editing
Robert Greene
fotografia/cinematography
Sean Price Williams
scenografia/production design
John Dickson
musica/music
Keegan DeWitt
suono/sound
Rachel Cameron
interpreti/cast
Kate Lyn Sheil, Deanna Davis, Stephanie Coatney, Michael Ray Davis, Zachary Gossel, Holland Hayes, David Mackey, Linda Roser, Mike Rubino, Marty Stonerock, Steve Zurk
produttori/producers
Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa
produzione/production
4th Row Films, Faliro House Productions
coproduttori/coproducers
Bennett Elliot, Danielle Rosen
contatti/contacts
Dogwoof
Luke Brawley
luke@dogwoof.com
www.dogwoof.com
Robert Greene
fotografia/cinematography
Sean Price Williams
scenografia/production design
John Dickson
musica/music
Keegan DeWitt
suono/sound
Rachel Cameron
interpreti/cast
Kate Lyn Sheil, Deanna Davis, Stephanie Coatney, Michael Ray Davis, Zachary Gossel, Holland Hayes, David Mackey, Linda Roser, Mike Rubino, Marty Stonerock, Steve Zurk
produttori/producers
Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa
produzione/production
4th Row Films, Faliro House Productions
coproduttori/coproducers
Bennett Elliot, Danielle Rosen
contatti/contacts
Dogwoof
Luke Brawley
luke@dogwoof.com
www.dogwoof.com
