Biography
Keywords
Production, documentary, scriptwriting, General Education, MA faculty
Kristine Weatherston is a filmmaker, media producer, and educator whose creative work includes documentary, narrative, and scriptwriting. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Prior to joining Temple faculty in 2012, Kristine held a variety of media production positions with broadcast and cable networks, local affiliates, and award-winning independent film producers. In 2018, she completed her most recent documentary, Under Pressure: The Hidden Story of Pregnancy and Preeclampsia (2018), a film focused on women’s health issues and a little-known disease of pregnancy, told through the stories of survivors themselves. She expanded the documentary into a podcast, which won a 2019 Independent Media Finishing Fund grant from Scribe Video Center. Kristine also won a faculty fellowship with the Emmys Foundation (2013), two faculty fellowships with NATPE (2013 and 2017), two Temple University Library Affordable Textbook Project grants (2014 and 2015), two Klein College Merit Scholars awards (2015 and 2016), the Klein College Creative Faculty Award (2016), and the Klein College Creative Work for Pedagogy Award (2019). She frequently presents on documentary, video production, scriptwriting, and media education at the University Film and Video Association and the Broadcast Education Association conferences. Throughout her 20 year production career, she’s screened her creative work in venues, competitions, and festivals nationally and internationally, and was a 2009 artist-in-residence with the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest, Hungary.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
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MSP 0821 | The Future of Your TV | Undergraduate |
MSP 3701 | Genres of Media Production/Documentary | Undergraduate |
MSP 3701 | "Documentary" | Undergraduate |
MSP 4796/8010 | Creative Scriptwriting | Undergraduate |
MSP 8010 | Creative Scriptwriting | Graduate |
EDUCATION
DEGREE | FIELD | SCHOOL |
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BA | Film Studies, Minor: Women’s Studies | Wayne State University |
MA | Media Production | Wayne State University |
PhD | Media, Art, and Text | Virginia Commonwealth University |
Presentations
- “Going Global in the Asynch GenEd Course MSP 0821: The Future of Your TV” 2023 Global Temple Conference. February 1, 2023. Temple University.
- “First Ladies of SNL” BEA, April 2019
- “A Screen of One’s Own: Women in Television and Media” Women In Core Conference. March, 2018
- “Student Distribution Opportunities – Film Festivals, YouTube and Beyond.” BEA –April, 2018
- “Visualizing the Story: How Plot Diagrams Save Scripts from Flatlining” – BEA, April 2017
Other creative projects, professional work, etc.
- Kristine Weatherston, Producer/Director/Editor
- Under Pressure: The Hidden Story of Pregnancy and Preeclampsia
- Watch Under Pressure on Vimeo
- Listen to Under Pressure: The Podcast
- Follow Under Pressure on Facebook
Awards
- Provost’s Teaching Academy. Temple University. Summer 2023
- PEX – Philadelphia Experience Grant. Temple University, Department of General Education, August 2021
- Creative Work for Pedagogy Award. Temple University. Klein College of Media and Communication. April 2019
- Independent Media Finishing Fund – Grant Winner. Scribe Video Center, with funds provided by the Wyncote Foundation. March 2019
- Faculty Fellowship Award, National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE). January 2017
- Faculty Creative Work Award. Temple University. School of Media and Communication. April 2016
- Creative Project Summer Stipend/Merit Scholars Award. Temple University. School of Media and Communication. Summer 2016
- Alternate Textbook Project Grant. Awarded by Temple University Libraries. May 2015
- Technology Fellow Award. Temple University. Technology Fellow Program, December 2014
- Creative Project Summer Stipend/Merit Scholars Award. Temple University. School of Media and Communication. December 2014
- Alternate Textbook Project Grant. Awarded by Temple University Libraries. May 2014
- Faculty Fellowship Award, Emmys Foundation. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. November 2013
- Faculty Fellowship Award, National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE). January 2013