After her boyfriend's suicide, high school senior Max McLean falls into a haze of drugs and sex, concluding with an unsuccessful attempt at taking her own life. Now haunted by visions of her dead love, Max runs away, ending up in a small town where she meets Ish, a free-spirited young man who may be the one person in the world who can break through to the disturbed Max before its too late.
Christine is a native New Yorker. Her debut feature film about love and suicide which she wrote and directed, Living with the Dead, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best First Film at LIIFE, and Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival in the U.K. It is currently available on Amazon VOD in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and Japan.
Christine holds a BA in Drama from SUNY Purchase College and was a Presidential Fellow while receiving her MFA in Film and Television from Savannah College of Art and Design. She is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab and of the female filmmakers collective, The Film Fatales.
She is working on her second feature film, an urban fairytale titled We Are Castles.
