Chris Paine is an American filmmaker and environmental activist. His notable works as director include the documentaries ''

Who Killed the Electric Car? ''Who Killed the Electric Car?'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the ...

'', ''

Revenge of the Electric Car ''Revenge of the Electric Car'' is a 2011 American feature documentary film by Chris Paine, who also directed ''Who Killed the Electric Car?''. The documentary, executive produced by Stefano Durdic, and produced by PG Morgan and Jessie Deeter, had ...

'' and '' Do You Trust This Computer?'' Paine received a nomination for the

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay is one of three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards focused specifically for film. The award is presented to the best screenplay of the year for a documentary feature. ...

for ''Who Killed the Electric Car?''

Career

Paine served as

Executive Producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In film ...

on the documentaries ''

Faster Faster or FASTER may refer to: Music * "Faster" (George Harrison song) * "Faster" (Matt Nathanson song) * "Faster" (Within Temptation song) * "Faster" (Manic Street Preachers song), a double A-side single by Manic Street Preachers * "Faster", ...

'', '' William Gibson: No Maps for these Territories'' and Charge directed by Mark Neale an
Bike vs Cars
directed by Fredrik Gertten. Other producing projects include MTV Europe's ''Buzz'' and shorts including ''Mailman'' and ''Zoo Life''. Paine worked for writer/director

Michael Tolkin Michael L. Tolkin (born October 17, 1950) is an American screenwriter, novelist, and director. He has written numerous screenplays, including ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'' (1992), which he adapted from his own 1988 novel of the same name ...

on the feature films ''

The Rapture The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still a ...

'', '' The Player,'' and ''

The New Age ''The New Age'' was a British weekly magazine (1894–1938),credited as a major influence on literature and the arts during its heyday from 1907 to 1922, when it was edited by Alfred Richard Orage. It published work by many of the chief politi ...

''.

Environment

Chris serves on the board of directors for

Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of grassroots environmental organizations in 73 countries. About half of the member groups call themselves "Friends of the Earth" in their own languages; the others use other ...

and worked on campaigns to end nuclear detonations at the

Nevada Test Site The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about northwest of ...

and to stop a freeway with a proposed

Tunnel A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is usually completely enclosed except for the two portals common at each end, though there may be access and ve ...

in northern California. In 2010, his team won three Webby awards fo
Counterspill
an online project about fossil fuel energy spills.

Education

Paine studied acting at the

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with

Sanford Meisner Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997) was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group ...

, and film at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

and

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. He is a graduate of

Colgate University Colgate University is a Private university, private college in Hamilton, New York, United States. The Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York ...

Entrepreneur

In 1984, with high-school classmate Roger Gilbertson, Paine co-founded Mondo-tronics, which designed an actuator for the

Mars Pathfinder ''Mars Pathfinder'' was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a rover (space exploration), roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a Lander (spacecraft), lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a ligh ...

mission and sold materials direct to the public as "The Robot Store". In 1994, Chris founded Internet Outfitters which he took public as part of

Commerce One Commerce One, Inc. operated online auctions focused on B2B e-commerce. At the peak of the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $21.5 billion. The company's technologies included Schema for Object-Oriented XML (SOX), an X ...

in 2000.

Filmography

Director: *"

" (2006) *"

" (2011) *" Do You Trust This Computer?" (2018) Executive Producer: *"Bikes vs Cars" (2015) *

Charge Charge or charged may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'', a 2011 documentary Music * ''Charge'' (David Ford album) * ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album) * '' Charge!!'', an album by The Aqu ...

(2010) *

(2003) *

No Maps for These Territories ''No Maps for These Territories'' is an independent documentary film made by Mark Neale focusing on the speculative fiction author William Gibson. It features appearances by Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Bono, and The Edge and was released by Doc ...

(2001) Miscellaneous Crew: *''The New Age'' (1994) *''The Player'' (1992)

References

External links

*
Papercut Films, the California-based production company for Chris Paine
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