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Synopsis
MISSISSIPPI IN THREE PARTS is a personal exploration, beginning and ending in my hometown and grounded in three foundational elements: my segregated and politically-entrenched childhood, engaging stories of a fractured community and powerful struggles for justice and liberation, and the discovery of the unmarked home of queer playwright Tennessee Williams. An essay film with a mix of styles - verite, theatrical, and personal - my own voice-over will shape the story, along with conversations between me and various participants. Characters and locations are currently in different stages of development and early production.
Beyond the picture-perfect stage, unanswered questions are revealed. What does it mean for a place to erase part of itself? What is our responsibility to home - in critique and in care?
Bio
Christie (she/her) is an award-winning director, editor, and producer who has worked in documentary filmmaking for over 20 years and has a strong interest in social justice. She recently produced and edited bias,a film that explores how our unconscious assumptions influence our choices. She edited and produced Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and edited (with Jean Kawahara) The Point of No Return for NOVA. She directed and produced the ITVS-funded film The Campaign which aired on public television and screened at numerous film festivals and universities. Her credits include work with PBS, National Geographic, A&E, MBC1, the History Channel, and many nonprofit and corporate clients including Facebook, SFMoMA, Levis, the Mississippi Center for Justice, and the UC Berkeley School of Law. Christie has taught workshops and been a guest lecturer on film at universities around the world, including Stanford University, the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, and in Ethiopia as an expert with the American Film Showcase. She has been a selected participant in the NBPC New Media Institute, the ITVS Queer X-Change, and the CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy at WGBH. Christie was a Resident in the San Francisco Film Society Film House and is the Steering Committee Chair of New Day Films, an educational documentary distribution coop. She received her MA in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University.
