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Kate Plays Christine

Directed by: Robert Greene
Runtime: 1hr 52min Year: 2016
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Directed by: Robert Greene
Runtime: 1hr 52min Year: 2016
Country: United States
Last Screened: Thu 20th Oct 2016

Actor Kate Lyn Sheil is preparing to play the role of Christine Chubbuck, a Florida television host who committed suicide on live air in 1974.

★★★★ “Fascinating” – The Guardian”Ingenious” – Variety

Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-head-and-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ Sheil as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue.

Committed to doing justice to Christine’s life, Kate not only candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process, but she also reveals the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. Kate Plays Christine boldly challenges its subjects and audience alike to accept that answers from the past are never easy.