Talent Guide

Christine O’Malley

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2012

Bio

Christine O’Malley has been making documentaries for film and television as a writer and producer for over 15 years. O’Malley served as associate producer on the Academy-Award nominated documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004).

Wordplay, the first feature length film she produced and co-wrote through her production company O’Malley Creadon Productions, was nominated for both a Critics’ Choice Award and a National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary of 2006. O’Malley and Creadon’s second film I.O.U.S.A., an examination of the size and scope of America’s national debt, had its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Other credits include Harry Shearer documentary The Big Uneasy (2010), and Sundance Selects. These Amazing Shadows (2011). She executive produced Superheroes (2011), the award-winning documentary that premiered at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and aired on HBO as part of its summer documentary series.

O’Malley is currently in production on Studio H, a feature-length documentary that spends one year in the life of one of America’s most innovative classrooms. The film features designers-turned-educators Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller and their students as they set out to make a lasting impact on their struggling local community.

Current Project

Studio H

Logline

Studio H is a documentary that spends one year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms. The film features designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller and proves that one of the best ways to make high school kids care about their schoolwork is to build their education around the things that matter most to them.