Bio: CHRISTINE LA MONTE, producer/director/writer and former film marketing executive at Universal, Disney and Orion, is founder of La Monte Productions where current projects on the festival circuit include two Italian feature documentaries: AI WEIWEI’S TURANDOT, an Italian/US co-production with her producing partner Marta Zaccaron's Incipit Film and La Monte Productions, with Julian Lennon and Marcie Polier serving as Executive Producers and Andy Cohen as producer, the film follows Ai Weiwei as he makes his operatic directorial debut at the Rome Opera House, bringing his activist/artistic vision to Puccini’s Turandot; and VIVA VERDI!, which she is producing/writing with producing partner and director, Yvonne Russo, about Casa Verdi in Milan, the home for retired opera singers built by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In post production is FIGLI DEL FIUME / CHILDREN OF THE RIVER, three men in search of meaning find their ancestral roots along Italy’s Po River, and JUSTICE DEFERRED, a feature film in development based on Len Williams’ critically acclaimed legal thriller book is in development
