Christine Fugate

Christine Fugate is an award-winning film producer and director whose work has been screened in theaters and broadcast on channels around the world. Her movie “Tobacco Blues” was broadcast on POV and screened on board Air Force One for President Bill Clinton. Christine’s feature-length film “The Girl Next Door” followed Oklahoma native Stacy Valentine’s rise to stardom in the adult film industry, and placed Christine on ShowBIZ Data’s list of the Top 100 Directors. In addition to her films, Christine has produced and directed projects for VH1, the Discovery Channel, A&E, Bravo, The Travel Channel, Pacific Rim Productions, and New Line Cinema. Over the past five years, she has specialized in filming overseas, specifically in Malawi, Great Britain, and Australia. Her directing career started in narrative filmmaking at Five Star Productions in Bangkok, Thailand, where she directed and acted in films. Christine is a full-time professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in Orange, California.