Graduate Speaker Series
Friday, April 5
11 - 11:50 a.m.
About the Lecture
Kristine Weatherston will share the strategies and writing tools she adopted in developing a first draft of her feature-length original screenplay, how she overcame writing obstacles, and tips for building your own narrative screenplays through research, revision, and reflection.
About the Speaker
Kristine Weatherston is a filmmaker, media producer, and educator whose creative work includes documentary, narrative and scriptwriting. Before joining Temple faculty in 2012, Kristine held various media production positions with broadcast and cable networks, local affiliates, and award-winning independent film producers. In 2018, she completed her most recent documentary, Under Pressure: The Hidden Story of Pregnancy and Preeclampsia (2018), a film focused on women’s health issues and a little-known disease of pregnancy, told through the stories of survivors themselves.
She expanded the documentary into a podcast, which won a 2019 Independent Media Finishing Fund grant from Scribe Video Center. She frequently presents on documentary, video production, scriptwriting, and media education at the University Film and Video Association and the Broadcast Education Association conferences. Throughout her 20-year production career, she’s screened her creative work in venues, competitions, and festivals nationally and internationally and was an artist-in-residence with the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest, Hungary, in 2009.