Kristine Samuelson

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Kristine Sarah Samuelson (born December 25, 1949 in San Francisco ) is an American film producer , film director and filmmaker who, together with her husband John Haptas , made a name for itself mainly because of both documentaries.

biography

Samuelson graduated from Stanford University with a degree in film. She is Edward Clark Crossett Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies and has taught documentary and video programming for over thirty years. In addition, like her husband, she is a documentary filmmaker herself. Both met at university. Together with her husband, Samuelson also worked in the field of fine arts at the University of Melbourne .

As early as 1976, Samuelson was nominated together with Jon Else and Steven Kovacs for an Oscar for the documentary short film Arthur and Lillie , a biography about Arthur and Lillie Mayer in the early days of Hollywood . For the television series Underground Zero , Samuelson shot the episode The World as We Know It together with Haptas in 2002 .

Haptas and Samuelson made a number of documentaries together on various topics, such as tourism in Paris (Empire of the Moon , 1991), the Vietnam War (Riding the Tiger , 1999) or homelessness (The Days and the Hours , 2006). With their award-winning film Tokyo Waka (2012), a portrait of Tokyo and the city's crows, they have been to festivals around the world. The film was shown at the Film Forum in New York, as well as in Toronto and Seattle. In their romantic short documentary Barn Dance from 2013 they showed a couple dancing a pas de deux in the light and shadow of an old barn . Her 2019 documentary Vom Leben überholt , which deals with a phenomenon that was first observed in refugee children in Sweden, also attracted attention, as this traumatic illness was previously largely unknown. In addition to several prizes, the film has also been nominated for an Oscar at the 92nd award ceremony in February 2020 in the "Best Documentary Short Film " category.

Kristine Samuelson is a professor at Stanford University, where she held the Chair of Art and Art History and was the head of the Film and Media program. She is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Her work is supported by artist grants from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris , the Victoria College of Art in Melbourne, the US-Japan Friendship Commission and the California Arts Council.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: Arthur and Lillie (documentary short film; producer)
  • 1995: Gravediggers (documentary short film; sound engineer)
  • 1996: Shaving the Castro (documentary short film; faculty advisor)
  • 1998: Reinvention (documentary short film; consultant)
  • 2000: This Is for Betsy Hall (short film; faculty advisor)
  • 2002: Underground Zero (segment: The World as We Know It ; director)
  • 2006: The Days and the Hours (video documentary; producer, director, editor, sound mixer)
  • 2006: Independent Lens (documentary series, episode Paris 1951 ; consultant)
  • 2008: I Can See Everything (documentary short film; co-producer, director)
  • 2009: POV (documentary series, follow-up POV Shorts Program ; consultant)
  • 2011: Numbers of the Day (documentary short film; editor, digital effects, sound mixing)
  • 2012: Tokyo Waka (video documentary; co-producer, co-director, sound operator, additional photography)
  • 2012: Bug People (documentary short film; faculty advisor)
  • 2013: Barn Dance (documentary short film; director)
  • 2017: Filmmakers Unite (FU) (documentary film; producer)
  • 2019: Overtaken by Life (Life Overtakes Me, documentary short film; producer, director, editor and sound department)

Awards (selection)

- Nominated ... -

- Excellent … -

  • 2001: Florida Film Festival
    with the Grand Jury Prize in the “Best Short Film” category together with John Haptas
  • 2019: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
    with the Audience Award together with John Haptas for     Vom Leben überholt
  • 2019: Chicago Critics Film Festival
    with the Audience Award together with John Haptas for     Vom Leben überholt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Samuelson on californiabirthindex.org
  2. ↑ a b c John Haptas see page americanfilmshowcase.com (English).
  3. ↑ In Focus: John Haptas and Kris Samuelson on Barn Dance see page blog.sffs.org (English).
  4. ↑ a b Kristine Samuelson see page art.stanford.edu (English).
  5. ↑ Professor emerita Kristine Samuelson earns Oscar nomination see page news.stanford.edu (English).
  6. ↑ Kristine Samuelson see page stanford.edu (English).
personal data
SURNAME Samuelson, Kristine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samuelson, Kristine Sarah (full name); Samuelson, Kris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, director and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California