Christopher White

History

Christopher White has been a documentary film editor, producer and director of numerous award-winning films since 1995. His most recent project as editor, "Roll Red Roll," premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. He was the editor and co-director of "Love Free or Die", which premiered at Sundance in 2012, winning the Special Jury Prize. Other films include "The Killer Within" (as editor and co-director), which premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and was nominated for a 2008 Best Documentary Emmy, and "Hard Road Home," nominated for a Best Documentary Emmy in 2009. "Elevate," a cross-cultural, multi-national journey of four particularly tall West African basketball-playing Muslim teenagers, premiered at SXSW in 2011 and won the Best Documentary Award at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival. Episodic Series work includes "The Horn," which won the RealScreen Award for Best Digital and Branded Content – Non-Fiction in 2017.

Movies

Women in Blue

Editor

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more inclusive. When the killing of Justine Damond results in the resignation of Chief Harteau, it threatens the gains women have made in the department.

Born to Be

Editor

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.

Roll Red Roll

Editor

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media each played in the tragedy.

We Could Be King

Additional Editor

Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were bitter rivals for over 40 years. This past year, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close 37 schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their former rival, King. Against overwhelming odds, a 27-year old first time head coach and a new principal fight to inspire young men from difficult circumstances to come together and lift each other toward a better future.

Love Free or Die

Editor

In June 2003, the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire came under fire when it became the first to elect an openly gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop. Since that flash point, Robinson has been at the center of the contentious battle for LGBT people to receive full acceptance in the faith.