Background
Fugate, Christine Louise was born on December 12, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Joseph Brauch and Mary Judith (Finney) Fugate.
Fugate, Christine Louise was born on December 12, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Joseph Brauch and Mary Judith (Finney) Fugate.
She completed a Master of Fine Arts in Asian film and theater at the University of Hawaii, and her thesis, The Power to Choose: Women in Thai Film, 1975-1990, is on file at the university"s library.
She is also a journalist, interviewer, and author of Mothering Heights, a now monthly online column also published in the Laguna Beach Independent. In 2008, she edited a collection of essays by women sharing diverse perspectives on the same subject, The Mothering Heights Manual for Motherhood, Volume I. She returned to Los Angeles in the nineties to begin her work as a filmmaker. Fugate married in 2000 and is a mother of two children.
Fugate began her career in 1990 as French director Barbet Schroeder"s assistant for the film, Single White Female.
In the late 1990s, Fugate produced and directed a series of independent films, including,,, and Fugate rendered the poetry of writer Donna Hilbert for the screen in Grief Becomes Maine (2005), which premiered at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
Fugate went on to create a biopic connecting Hilbert"s life and work, titled.
Volunteer University of California at Los Angeles Hospital/Pediatricians, 1995, Democratic Party, Los Angeles, 1993-1997. Member Women in New Technologies, Film Arts Foundation, Women in the Arts.