Biography

Christene Browne originally from the island of St. Kitts has been working as an independent producer and director for more than ten years. Her award winning film, "Them That's Not" was the fourth film in the National Film Board of Canada's Feminzation of Poverty series. Before that she produced and directed "Jodie Drake:Blues in My Bread" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations' Adreiene Clarkson Presents show. Her other works include; "No Choice" and the much acclaimed "Brothers in Music". "Another Planet" marks her debut as a feature filmmaker. As the result of making "Another Planet", Browne becomes the first Black woman in Canada to direct and write a dramatic feature film. All of Browne's films have screened to much acclaim internationally.
- IMDb mini biography by: syncopated@sympatico.ca

Born in St. Kitts, Browne moved with her family to Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest low income community in 1970. It was in that Toronto community where the seeds of Browne's filmmaker career were planted. There she participated and then lead the Regent Park Video workshop project and made a number of socially and culturally relevant videos. It was during this time Browne decided to go to film school. She attended the film program at Ryerson's in Toronto.

After leaving Ryerson, Browne worked for a small film company before starting her own production company, Syncopated Productions in 1990.

Her very first two films "Brothers in Music", a film about two struggling jazz musicians and "No Choices, a 6 minute film that looked at the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991 and launched Browne's film career.

From that time onward Browne has consistently produced work that has tackled hard hitting topics such as poverty, the welfare system, social inequalities. She has worked independently and has also done projects with the National Film Board of Canada (Them that's Not (1993) and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (Jodie Drake: Blues in My Bread, 1991). Her films have won numerous awards and have been screened and broadcast internationally.

In 1999 Browne completed the semi autobiographical film "Another Planet", her first dramatic feature film and the first feature film to be directed by a Black woman in Canada.

Most Recently Browne completed "Speaking in Tongues", a ground breaking documentary series that looks at the History of Language from prehistoric time to the present day.

Browne resides in Toronto with her three children.
- IMDb mini biography by: syncopatedprod@rogers.com

The first African-Canadian woman to produce, direct and write a dramatic feature film.