Kate Plays Christine focuses on actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares to play Christine Chubbuck, a TV news reporter who committed suicide live on air. Committed to doing justice to Christine’s life, Kate candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process, also revealing the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-head-and-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ Kate Lyn Sheil as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue.
Kate Plays Christine
Directed by Robert Greene