Christine Fugate began producing and directing documentaries while studying for her Masters in Asian Film and Theater. Her first documentary, Fighting For Our Lives, explored the efforts of Korean women to survive in the International Marketplace of Waikiki, Hawaii. In 1991, Fugate formed Café Sisters Productions with Eren McGinnis. Fugate directed their first PBS project, The Southern Sex, a playful examination of the myth of the Southern Belle. The Southern Sex won the Director's Choice at the Atlanta Film Festival, the Special Judges Award at the New York Expo, a Bronze Apple at the Educational Media Festival, a Cindy Award, and it screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Fugate's second directorial effort, Mother Love, was broadcast on PBS stations on Mother's Day and won a Chris award at the Columbus Film Festival. In 1998, Café Sisters produced Tobacco Blues, an ITVS co production, that was broadcast on the 1998 POV series. Tobacco Blues also screened at the 1998 Hot Springs Documentary Festival and on board Air Force One for President Clinton and his aides.
Prior to her documentary work, Fugate worked for director Barbet Schroeder on the Columbia feature, Single White Female. Fugate has a B.A. from Newcomb College and a M.A. from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. She is fluent in Thai and Italian.
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