Christine Noschese

Christine Noschese is a writer, director and producer of both documentary and fictional films. Christine's current project, Brooklyn Roses, is a dramatic feature incorporating documentary footage with fictional narrative. Her films include, Keep On Steppin, which won Best Short at the Newberry Port Documentary Film Festival and screened at HBO and BET's Urban Focus Film Festival and numerous festivals in the U. S. and Internationally. June Roses, a fictional narrative premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the New Directors/New Films and was funded by a grant from the American Film Institute Independent Filmmakers Program. Metropolitan Avenue, her documentary had a theatrical run at the Film Forum and was broadcast nationally on PBS, P.O.V. and Channel Four in Great Britain. Christine received the prestigious John Grierson Award for best documentary and was nominated for a National Emmy for best director for this work. The film screened at festivals in the U.S and Europe including Festival Del Populi and Leipzig International Film Festival (Jury Prize for Best Documentary). The John T. & Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation distributed 2,000 copies of Metropolitan Avenue to libraries throughout the US. Christine's received a fellowship for her short comedy, Mary Therese from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In addition to her independent films and videos, Christine has produced and directed educational videos for unions, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Christine was a founding member and the first director of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, a community based organization in Brooklyn NY. Her work has been supported by New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Council on the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Paul Robeson Foundation, The Film Fund and the Women in Film and Television Foundation, Christine's work has been reviewed and critically acclaimed in the New York Times, Los Angles Times, Ms Magazine. American Anthropologist amongst others and cited in numerous texts on films, women, and urban studies. Christine was a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies and received her M.A. from Goddard College in Media Studies. She is on the faculty of Hofstra University's School of Communication where she teaches undergraduate film production and screen writing and in the M.F.A. program in Documentary Studies and Production.