Monkeywrench
Directed by: Chris Teague
Drama | 2009 | 10min
New York

About the film:
A young environmental activist finds her ideology tested in a forest on the verge of being clearcut.

Screening Times: Shorts Block A @ Sinclair Auditorium
7:15pm Wednesday 6/16
9:15pm Friday 6/18
1:15pm Saturday 6/19

About the filmmaker:

Chris Teague is a writer, director, cinematographer, and graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program. As a cinematographer, he most recently shot the feature film CHILDREN OF INVENTION, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Chris has also acted as cinematographer on MAN, THE SECOND LINE, and SALT KISS, all short films that have played at the Sundance Film Festival, while individually they have played at The New York Film Festival, Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, New Directors/New Films, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. As a writer/director, Chris made the short film THORNDIKE, which played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and also earned him second place in the Kodak Eastman Scholars program and a New Line Cinema development grant. Chris has also traveled to Africa and South America for various narrative and documentary productions, and is currently developing his own script about radical environmental activists in the Pacific Northwest, which his most recent directing endeavor, the short film MONKEYWRENCH, is based upon.