Christine McLean is a well-known broadcast journalist and documentary writer/director living in Fredericton. Christine has written, directed and narrated more than a dozen documentaries for CBC Television and the Discovery Channel.
She won a Silver Chris award for best youth programme in 2004 for her documentary Practice, Practice, Practice about the New Brunswick youth orchestra’s journey to Carnegie Hall. She won two additional Chris awards for Against the Sea, an examination of the water crisis in Holland for Discovery Canada and for Flying on the Moon, the story of the life and career of New Brunswick pianist, Ludmila Kneskova-Hussey, produced for CBC’s Opening Night. Flying on the Moon was also nominated for a Silver Wave Award.
Christine more recently has worked as story editor and/or co-director on documentaries for Hemmings House Pictures of Saint John and Acrolect International of Fredericton. She was the story editor and narrator of It Was the Dance, last year’s winner for best low budget documentary at SWFF.
At present she is the only New Brunswick director contributing to CBC’s long-running Land and Sea series. She is a former executive member of WIFT-AT and a graduate of SIFT and an alumna of the WIDC CAM in St John’s.