Christiane Covington
Director/Writer/Producer

DIRECTING CREDITS
FILM/VIDEO and THEATRE

Christiane Covington's newest screenplay "THE FREEDOM CAFE" (a romance drama-comedy-music feature) has won Second Place in the Film Industry Network's Screenplay Competition.

2003.  ABSENCE OF FEAR, Screenplay Reading.
@ Improv Olympic West Theatre, Hollywood, CA. 
Reader’s Theatre Style.

2002.  THE VOICES OF OUR YOUTH, Legacy Productions.
@ San Diego Actors Alliance One-Act Festival, St. Cecelia's Playhouse. A 20-minute one-act exploring the voices of youth who experience the pain of their parents' divorce.

2001.  LEGACIES; VOICES OF WOMEN AND MEN, by James Anthony Ellis
30-minute romantic comedy filmed in nine locations of San Diego.  DOP:  Howard Wexler.

2000.  THE ONE STOP GEOMETRY SHOP, by Maureen McGuigan. 
Sponsored by The Muse Theatre Play Festival 2000 @ The Jack Dodge Theatre, downtown in the GasLamp District, San Diego.

1999.  THE WHITE LIGHT POLE WAS FREE, by James Anthony Ellis
55 minute one-act play @ The Experimental Theatre, San Diego.

1998.  MIDSUMMER AT THE MORGAN
Reader's Theatre presentation with a live cast of 25 actors @ The American Film Institute's Mark Goodson Theatre, Hollywood.  5-minute VHS demo of one scene available, excerpted from the feature screenplay.

1994.  READ MY LIPS
by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Music Video, Los Angeles.

1991-1994. IN THEIR OWN WORDS; A PORTRAIT OF THE HOMELESS
60-minute documentary. Cross-cut interviews of ten homeless people (60 Minutes-style)  discussing their backgrounds, drugs, alcoholism, police, society and life on the street, Santa Monica.  Circulated by The Hunger Project, Westside and Santa Monica's City Council.

1990.  GETTIN' UP THERE
Santa Monica City TV segment broadcast over six months.   Charles Younga (a 76-year-old yodeler) performs on talent night, and then tells of his background as a coal-miner in Virginia.  Produced by Santa Monica City TV.

1989.  TRUE WEST  by Sam Shepard
@ The Morgan Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica.

1988.  KEY EXCHANGE,  by Kevin Wade
@ The Morgan Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica.
MWT Board votes Christiane into "Lifetime Stable of Approved Directors."

1987.  LAUNDREY AND BOURBON,  by James McLure.
@ MWT., Santa Monica.

1985.  BETTER TO HAVE LOST
UCLA Graduate Film Studies "Project One.", Director/Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor.

1981.  THE FINAL BOW, by Christiane Covington
@ The Marquis Theatre, San Diego.
Ran several weeks at The Marquis Theater and reviewed favorably in San Diego Magazine.

1980.  DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, by Christiane Covington.
@ SDSU's Experimental Theatre.

 

Script Supervisor
Check credits on: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1129764/

2005, The Visitation

2005, Conversations with Other Women

2003, A CHRISTMAS TOO MANY
Feature
Christmas Too Many Productions, Inc.
Written and Directed by Stephen Wallis
Co-Starring Mickey Rooney

2003, HOW DID IT FEEL?
Feature
Blue Unicorn Films
Written and Directed by Daniel Faraldo
Co-Starring Natasha Wagner, Blair Underwood

2003, S I X 
Feature
Majestic Productions
Directed by Kevin Downes
Co-Starring Stephen Baldwin

2003, MY GARDENER
Feature
CinemaWorks Productions
Written and Directed by Iren Koster

2003, CLIPPING ADAM
Feature
Flying Time Productions
Written and Directed by Michael Alan Picchiottino
Co-Starring Louise Fletcher and Kevin Sorbo

2002, THE GRAND INQUISITOR
Flying Hat Productions
Directed by Welton Jones, III and Mark Stephan

2002, OUTTA TIME
Feature
Filmstar Productions
Directed by Lorena David
Starring Mario Lopez

2001, THE GATEKEEPER
Feature
Gatekeeper Productions
Directed by John Carlos Frey
Award - Santa Barbara Film Festival

2001, REMEMBER ME
Corporate training film
Co Produced by Dakota Group and CRM Learning.
Directed by Cindy Erdman

2001, THE HEALER'S SON
Feature
Directed by Paula Patterson-Day

2000, THE MIRACLE OF EL MILAGRO
Directed by Michael Escher
Award - Palm Springs Film Festival

1999, THE KING'S GUARD
Feature
Directed by Jonathan Tydor
Co-Starring Eric Roberts

1999, INCARNATIONS
January 1999 @ AFI, Cycle Project
Directed by Jonathan Ari Yudis

1998, CLICK THREE TIMES
Writer/Director Victoria Sampson has been nominated for several Oscars in Sound Editing, including "The Rose,"
"On Golden Pond,"  "The Fifth Element."

1998, THE  WATER GHOST
American Film Institute film
Directed by Elizabeth Sung (recipient of the CINE Eagle Award)

1996, BAILEY KIPPER'S  P.O.V.  / "WE HAVE RULES"
M.T.M. ENTERPRISES, INC.,  Studio City
Written and Produced by Mark Waxman
Directed by Hank Polonsky
A pilot for a children's drama/comedy using 50% special/digital FX


"Christiane's script notes were the most accurate and legible I've seen…was a positive presence on my set.”

“She has a very conscientious and practical approach…. meticulous, always thinking ahead… a pleasure to work with."

"…always concentrated and quiet on set -- her notes are exhaustive and precise.. …asks the right questions at the right times."


Click on the image below to see Christiane's story-board style of note-taking.

Certification

A.F.I. Script Supervision Certification Course
Trained with Nancy Friedman, script supervisor on more than 100 feature films, movies-of-the-week, television series, documentaries, and over 200 commercials.
All techniques of timing, recordkeeping, screen direction, continuity and breakdowns.

Education

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE, 1994-1996
M.F.A. in SCREENWRITING

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 1982-1985
Graduate Film Studies in Film Production and Screenwriting
Managing Editor of the UCLA Writers' Block 1984-1985

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
B.A. in DRAMA, 1980. Minor in Telecommunications and Film
Awarded Skull and Dagger Awards for original one-act writing and directing

Screenplays Written

MIDSUMMER AT THE MORGAN
In and around the rehearsal process during a community theatre's staging of Shakespeare's comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream," a love triangle develops within the cast.  Similar elements to that of FAME and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
 
THE DOLPHIN BOY
When seventeen-year old Evan Daniels discovers a beached dolphin, his intuitive powers lead him to its mother at a local oceanarium.  When hired as a dolphin trainer, he learns the behind-the-scenes techniques of the popular show behaviors.  The writer was the first woman dolphin trainer at SeaWorld, San Diego.  Genre:  Coming-of-Age drama.


Legacy Productions
310-285-8613
E-mail: lightclair@earthlink.net