Kristine Samuelson
Department of Art and Art History
435 Lasuen Mall, room 109
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2018
(650) 723-0943
samuelson@stanford.edu

Kristine Samuelson has been an independent producer for twenty-eight years. Her filmmaking credits include Time Has No Sympathy, Arthur and Lillie, 2 A.M. Feeding, An Artist's Journey, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Empire of the Moon, Riding the Tiger, The World As We Know It, and The Days and The Hours. Her work has been broadcast on PBS and the Arts and Entertainment Network and has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival (Special Jury Prize), British Short Film Festival, Mostra Internazionale de Montecatini, Athens Film Festival (Best of Category), and Charlotte Film Festival (Best Experimental Documentary). Samuelson was nominated for an Academy Award for Arthur and Lillie and has received Artist's Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From 1999-2006, Samuelson served on the Board of the Independent Television Service.

Kris is also a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford, where she serves as the Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and the Documentary Film and Video MFA Program. She has also been a professor in the Department of Communication, where she served as Chair from 2000-2003. In addition to a Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, she has been awarded a Bing Teaching Award and the Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Communication. She was also chosen as the 1996-97 McNamara Faculty Fellow in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Samuelson recently completed ".Point 25" a multimedia concert and co-production with colleagues at KTH University in Stockholm. She received her B.A.(cum laude) from the University of California at Los Angeles and has an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University.