Christine La Monte

Producer/director/writer and former film marketing executive at Universal, Disney, and Orion, she is the founder/president of La Monte Productions where current projects on the festival circuit include two Italian feature documentaries: AI WEIWEI’S TURANDOT, a co-production with Italy’s Incipit Films which follows Ai Weiwei as he makes his operatic directorial debut at the Rome Opera House, bringing his activist/artistic vision to Puccini’s Turandot making its world premiere at the Santa Barabara International Film Festival, February 2025; VIVA VERDI!, which she is producing/writing about Casa Verdi in Milan, the home for retired opera singers built by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896, world premiering at the Woodstock Film Festival, October 2024; and in postproduction, FIGLI DEL FIUME / CHILDREN OF THE RIVER, three men in search of meaning find their ancestral roots along Italy’s Po River. In various stages of development are THE OTHER SIDE OF 90, a feature documentary about women in their 90s, which she is directing/writing, and a feature film, JUSTICE DEFERRED, based on Len Williams’ critically acclaimed legal thriller. La Monte produced the Palm Spring International Film Festival audience award-winning short film, DANDELION DHARMA; the Gary Goldstein scripted play, “Three Grooms & A Bride,” and the syndicated television talk show, “Marilu” starring Marilu Henner. Her directing credits include the Screen Actors Guild’s “A Heart United” with Sharon Lawrence and Jo Beth Williams, and “The Angina Monologues” with Brenda Strong and Eric Close. She spent over five years as Executive Vice President of the Motion Picture Division at Rogers & Cowan; and as an international strategic marketer worked at legendary Italian studio, CineCittà in Rome; and served as Marketing Executive at TV 3 New Zealand while living in Auckland. La Monte is a Contributing Editor of Musée Magazine, an avant-garde photography magazine. A long-time member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences where she serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Student Academy Awards, she is a member of the Academy of Television Arts, as well as the Alliance of Women Directors. A current member of PEN America’s Los Angeles Committee, La Monte is on the board of the University of Buffalo’s Dean’s Advisory Council, and is a past faculty member of New York’s School of Visual Arts where she initiated the Dusty Awards, an annual festival of student short films and awards ceremony. She is on the Advisory Board of LA-based SEEfest, the Southeast European Film Festival, and is a frequent guest speaker/panelist at independent filmmaking events, including USC, UCLA, and New York Film Academy; she has been the Chair of the Humanitas Awards jury panel for the past two years. With US/Italian dual citizenship, she divides her time between Los Angeles and Rome with her author husband, Len Williams.