Christie Herring moved to California from NYC where she worked in educational and documentary film production.  She received a BA in English from Duke University and soon thereafter co-directed Waking in Mississippi, a documentary about race relations in her hometown of Canton, Mississippi. She spent several years working as a Project Manager at the Harvard School of Public Health in projects relating to health care policy and quality and has also worked as an advocate for those dealing with same-sex domestic violence. She plans to stay in the Bay Area after graduation.

Bodies and Souls
digital video
17:40 min.

Bodies and Souls focuses on the work of Sister Manette, a white Catholic nun running a health clinic in rural Mississippi. Where almost every family is struck by both diabetes and heart disease, her clinic's refreshingly practical approach to faith, race, and poverty in the community imparts lasting change in small doses.

Chickens in the City
16mm, color film
7:21 min.

Chickens in the City is a chicken-level view of backyard coops in San Francisco. The film playfully explores the ways in which keeping chickens has helped shape the philosophies behind what and how urban chicken-owners eat. When is the last time you looked YOUR dinner in the eye?

FESTIVALS AND SCREENING

• Cinequest Film Festival, 2005
• Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, 2005
• San Francisco Independent Documentary Film Festival, 2005
• Rural Route Film Festival, 2005
• Mountain Film Festival, 2005

Weekend Warriors
Co-directed by Lila Place and Christie Herring digital video
8:46 min.

Chronicles one week in the life of several people who routinely reenact the bloodiest war in American history, the American Civil War.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENING

• Oakland International Film Festival, 2004
• Jury Award, Magnolia Independent Film Festival. 2005

Howdy Partner
16mm, black and white film
3:34 min.

Playfully explores the meaning behind a word that has become a social convention.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:

• Frameline: San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2004
• NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, 2004
• Adelaide, Australia Film Feast, 2004
• Out on Film: Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2004
• Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, 2004
• Cantor Arts Festival, 2004
• Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, 2004
• Kansas City IndyOuttie Festival, 2004
• Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, 2004
• Fresno Reel Pride, 2005
• Oakland International Film Festival, 2004
• InsideOut: Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2005
• Finalist, PlanetOut Short Movie Awards 2005
• Queer Windows: Brown Univeristy LBGTQ Film and Video Festival, 2005