Christine Beebe

Welcome Space Brothers is a feature documentary directed by Jodi Wille that unveils the true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, a long-running extraterrestrial-channeling, self-healing spiritual school in El Cajon, California, whose students in the late 1970s became a wildly prolific filmmaking and art collective under the direction of outlandish spiritual leader and visionary filmmaker Ruth E. Norman, AKA “Archangel Uriel.” Produced by Caryn Capotosto of Museum & Crane and executive produced by Bryn Mooser and Kathryn Everett of XTR, Matt Perniciaro of Diorama Media, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Josh Braun of Submarine, Thalia Mavros of The Front, Rob Ganger, Lawrence Ingle, Daniel Noah & Elijah Wood of SpectreVision and Associate Produced by Christine S. Beebe.

U.S. Premiere: Beyond Fest presented by Neon October 8, 2023.

Press: Deadline Los Angeles Magazine

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chef Elizabeth Falkner travels the U.S. to give us an insider's perspective on how renowned restaurateurs survived (and failed) during the most difficult time in their careers and how food systems must evolve.

Featuring Chefs Nancy Silverton, Ann Kim, Gerald Sombright, Maneet Chauhan, Tanya Holland, Alice Waters-and many more. Directed by Pete Ferriero. Produced by Elizabeth Falkner, Pete Ferriero and Lisa Shotland. Executive Produced by Raymond Esposito of The Oaks Media Group and Christine S. Beebe.

U.S. Premiere: Portland Film Festival 2022.

Distributed by: Gravitas Ventures.

Available on: Amazon, iTunes.

Awards: Pasadena International Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Winner 2022.

More Than Robots is directed by Gillian Jacobs in her feature-length documentary directorial debut. The film follows four teams of teenagers from around the world as they prepare for the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition. Faced with overwhelming challenges such as limited resources within their communities and a world-wide pandemic, the teens persevere and learn that there is a lot more to the competition than just robots. Shot in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Chiba, Japan. As Lucasfilm’s Executive of Non-Fiction Development, Beebe executive produced this documentary film with colleague Michael Garcia with Jacqui Lopez as co-executive producer. Award-winning Supper Club founders Jason Sterman, Brian McGinn, and David Gelb produced. The film, presented by Supper Club and Disney+, was made in partnership with FIRST.

U.S. Premiere: SXSW Film Festival on March 14th, 2022.

Created by: Lucasfilm.

Available on: Disney+ March 18, 2022.

Press: NYTimes The Wrap Cinema Blend

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge is the first ever Star Wars children's game show. Released in June 2020 to over 1.4 million views, the series takes place in a galaxy far far away where young Padawans compete to become Jedi Knights. The series is hosted by Ahmed Best, best known for his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, who is Jedi Master Kelleran Beq and his droid companion, AD-3, voiced by Mary Holland. Beebe acted as Executive Producer along with Dean Houser and Lucasfilm colleagues, Mickey Capoferri, and show creators, Scott Bromley and Steve Blank. The show was produced by Endeavor Content.

Created by: Lucasfilm.

Available on: StarwarsKids.

Awards: In 2021 a Silver Children’s Audience Telly Award in Non-Broadcast and Bronze Telly Award in Children’s Branded Content.

Press: ABCNews CNET Entertainment Weekly

Milena Pastreich directs a beautiful feature documentary film about men in South Central, Los Angeles who find hope in their backyards through their dedication to their Birmingham Roller pigeons. Produced by Beebe along with Bow and Arrow Entertainment, the film premiered in Competition at the Seattle International Film Festival 2019 and was released on VOD in April 2020.
Festivals:  Seattle International Film Festival
Distributed by: Gravitas Ventures
Available on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, youtube.
Awards:  Canon Filmmaker Award, the Rogovy Foundation Award, and the Pacific Pioneer Fund.
Labs: True/False Rough Cut Retreat, Women at Sundance and Women in Film Financing and Strategy Intensive, Film Independent Lab, Film Independent Forum, and IDA’s Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program.

A feature documentary directed by Tyler Hubby and produced by Christine S. Beebe and Paul Williams about the iconoclastic American multi-media artist Tony Conrad, whose influence ranges from the Velvet Underground to the Yes Men, utilizes intimate footage shot over the last twenty years, revealing a remarkable, creative life.

U.S. Theatrical Release: Anthology Film Archive, March-April, 2017.
Notable Film Screenings: Viennale, DOCNYC, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Big Sky Film Festival, the Tate Modern, the Broad.
Distributed by: Grasshopper Educational.
Available on: iTunes.
Awards: FILAF 2016 Prix D'argent winner, Buffalo International Film Festival Best Documentary Award winner.

www.tonyconradmovie.com

Directed by Amy Scott and produced by PGA Award Nominees Christine S. Beebe, Brian Morrow and Jonathan Lynch of Shark Pig, along with Lisa Janssen, this is a provocative documentary film examining the life and work of director Hal Ashby (Harold & Maude, Shampoo, Being There) within the changing landscape of American cinema. 
Theatrical Release: IFC Center Sept 7, 2018 and Los Angeles Nuart Theatre Sept 14, 2018.
U.S. Premiere: Sundance 2018, U.S. Documentary Competition.
Distributed by: Oscilloscope Films.
Available on: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, vimeo.
Available for Purchase here.
Press: NYTimes Los Angeles Times Variety Roger Ebert Hollywood Reporter Rolling Stone Vanity Fair

FELIX AUSTRIA! is Beebe’s feature documentary directorial debut. Staring down the barrel of an incurable genetic disease, Brian Scott Pfeifle reacts the way any American would: He changes his name to Felix, enters psychoanalysis and sets out to befriend the would-be ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Otto von Habsburg. His quest takes him all the way to Vienna, in the spirit of now-or-never, in a story of life-defining passions and triumphs.
World Premiere: HotDocs.
Awards: Spotlight Award winner at Indie Spirit Film Festival, Best Documentary at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Milan.
Available on DVD: IndiePix.
Available on Amazon Prime: IndiePix Prime Video Channel.

Created by Rhys Ernst, produced by Christine S. Beebe and presented by Focus Features, a Nonetheless Production in association with 11B Productions, this Emmy-nominated docu-series shares previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. 
Notable Film Screenings: Frameline40, OutFest.
Awards: GLAAD Special Recognition Award, OutFest 2016 Audience Award, Translations Best Shorts Series winner.
For full Screening and Press Lists please inquire.
View the series, at: www.wevebeenaround.com

In 2017, Christine S. Beebe teamed up with Carina Chocano, author of the recently published memoir, "You Play the Girl" to produce a series of interviews for The Cut. Interviewees include Logan Browning of Netflix’s "Dear White People," Natalie Morales of Fox Searchlight’s "Battle of the Sexes," and Tiya Sircar of ABC’s "Alex, Inc" as they discuss what they watched on tv growing up, how it shaped their ideas about themselves, and what it's been like to "play the girl" in Hollywood. 

Christine S. Beebe produced MTV Other's Fast Food Heights, Season 2, an online comedy series created by Jessica Haymond and Greg Tuculescu and stars Nicole Byer, Jimmy Wong, and Alison Rich, among others about a dim-witted manager who tries to get the staff of a rundown fast food restaurant to take their jobs more seriously. 
To see more of the series, please visit: 

MTV Other Fast Food Heights Season 2

Christine S. Beebe teamed up with Standard Quality to produce multiple in-store videos that appeared in Reebok stores nation-wide.

Co-directed by Milena Pastreich and Christine S. Beebe and produced by Beebe, this series follows 40 student finalists as they compete for a coveted and controversial Thiel Fellowship.  
To watch all 23 episodes go to:

video.wired.com/series/teen-technorati

Co-directed by Milena Pastreich and Christine S. Beebe and produced by Beebe, in this season, as the 2014 Thiel Fellows move to San Francisco to pursue their dreams in Silicon Valley, the reality of having to drop out of school and deal with parental judgment starts to sink in.
To watch all 8 episodes of Season Two, go to:

http://video.wired.com/series/teen-technorati

Christine S. Beebe produced Season 3 of The Window for WIRED where viewers get to go inside the most advanced blimp in the air and into the only deep-diving submersible in the United States, the Alvin as it pushes the boundaries of deep-water exploration.
To see the entire season, go to:

http://video.wired.com/series/the-window

What's Inside is an animated series that explores the science behind the everyday stuff that surrounds us.  Christine S. Beebe produced these Season 2 films.
To watch all 5 films of Season Two, go to:

http://video.wired.com/series/what-s-inside

The Indie Machines’ Erik Beck and Justin Johnson put gadgets through a 3-part destruction test, like taking a sledgehammer to a Nintendo Game Boy and dropping a cinder block on an iPad—all in the name of science.  Produced by Christine S. Beebe.
To see the full season of Battle Damage, go to:

http://video.wired.com/series/battle-damage

Christine S. Beebe produced this series that relives the glory days of gadgets from the past from Atari 2600 to the compact Apple lle personal computer.
To see all episodes, visit:

http://video.wired.com/series/retrograde