Chris O'Dea

Chris O'Dea is a documentary filmmaker with a focus on new media and global perspectives. He has an MFA from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He studied documentary filmmaking under Russian filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya and was a production technician for NBC Sports during their coverage of the Salt Lake City, Sydney, Torino, Athens and Beijing Olympic Games. O'Dea's thesis film, "A New Normal" (35min), won Best Documentary at UCLA in 1998 and was featured at Marina Goldovskaya's Documentary Salon Series in 2000. His short film "Requiem for Tomorrow's Conscience" was a finalist in the One Nation, Many Voices Online Film Contest in 2007. A New Normal was featured at the Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video in Victoria, Canada in 1998. O'Dea is Director of Production at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.