Biography

K.J. (Kris) Wetherholt is a Writer, Producer, award-winning filmmaker, and the Publisher/Executive Editor for MIPJ: Media, Information, International Relations, and Humanitarian Affairs as well as the upcoming site merging current issues with philosophy, psychology, history, art, science, and literature: Philosophorum Media.

She is also a subject matter expert (SME) on modern war from WWI to the present focusing on asymmetric and guerrilla warfare, information and human security, and the various media through which modern war is depicted. She has written on war for The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and MIPJ, having also written the books The Illumination: A Novel of the Great War (2nd Edition: 2021), and an academic monograph: ELN: A Profile of Ejército de Liberación Nacional (2021).

In film, from 1995-2002, while Co-Charman of RGEC, she became an internationally award-winning writer, producer, and filmmaker with films on the international festival circuit and would win both critical acclaim and receive award recognition in festivals and markets internationally, including the London Screenings, The Rhode Island Film Festival, Toronto Online Film Festival, New York and Los Angeles screenings of the New York Independent Film and Video Festival and the MediaTerra installation in Athens, Greece. She further attended numerous film and television conferences, festivals and markets worldwide (AFM, MIP-TV, London Screenings, NATPE) as a respected Co-Chairman and chief executive, promoting both film and television projects, including those in association with their theatrical, publishing, and music divisions, negotiating licensing agreements for these projects.

In 2006, following a hiatus from the industry to become an advocate for Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy-Body Dementia in caring for her father, Wetherholt decided to return to issues of war and human security becoming a member of the working group among the principals of ThomsonReuters Foundation, BBC World Service Trust, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the British and American Red Cross, and Internews, spearheading information dissemination protocols among crisis-affected populations.

In 2012, she would become Publisher/Executive Editor for MIPJ, with such partners as VII, NOOR, MediaStorm, PBS, IRIN, FotoEvidence, SDN, the Center for Climate and Security, and The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, featuring the work of such photojournalists Kadir Van Lohuizen, Lynsey Addario, Jan Grarup, Ron Haviv, Marcus Bleasdale, Robin Hammond, Nina Berman, Anthony Karen, Alexandra Boulat, Alixandra Fazzina, James Whitlow Delano, Stephanie Sinclair, Greg Constantine, Ed Kashi, Sean Gallagher, Pep Bonet, and Jason P. Howe, among others.
- IMDb mini biography by: Philosophorum Media

Was the subject of an oil painting of a Viking/Celtic warrior by nationally-known portrait artist, Frederick Petroskey.

Originally went to school for international relations and international security policy as a student of Assistant Secretary of Defense for NATO, Joseph Kruzel, then after reading Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, changed course to literature and film.

There are major revolutions every few hundred years...humanity seems to depend on things being shaken up from time to time, to remind them of what is the most important. During those periods of conflict, in addition to the chaos which is inevitable, there is also a thread of great enlightenment. The light at the end of the tunnel, as it were. You don't ignore the dark side of truth, but you don't dwell on it to the detriment of forward movement. You have to also focus on what is best in humanity - those aspects of who we are which is luminescent, and perhaps even moreso in contrast to those dark moments. Showing both sides is what becomes incredibly important.