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Chris Donahue
John Christopher Donahue is an American film and television producer. He began his career as a producer in television news and documentaries, then transitioned to narrative film and television at the American Film Institute. He has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for producing Visas and Virtue (1998), and an Emmy for his documentary Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003).
Donahue founded West Main Street Productions, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Producers Guild of America. He is a board member for the Humanitas Prize.
Donahue was born in Dallas, Texas. Donahue attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He did undergraduate studies at Loyola University New Orleans, where he received a bachelor's degree in Communications. He holds graduate degrees from the American Film Institute (MFA) and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (M.Div. and Th.M.).
One of the films he cited as early influences that he grew up watching include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The first film he ever watched in a theater was Robert Wise's film The Sound of Music.
Donahue's first professional job was at WWL-TV in New Orleans. Donahue received two consecutive New Orleans Press Club Awards, for the documentaries Russia: A Prison of Nations and Nicaragua: A Land Divided. Through PBS affiliate work he was selected as a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Fellow at WGBH in Boston. He produced hundreds of hours of local news, documentary, and children's television in New Orleans before moving to Los Angeles in 1991 to attend the American Film Institute (AFI).
After AFI, he worked for Paulist Productions as the Director of Development and was a co-producer on Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) written by John Wells, starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen. In 1998 he produced the short Visas and Virtue (1997), a narrative depiction of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. For this he received an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (shared with director Chris Tashima). He co-founded Cedar Grove Productions in 1996 with Tashima and playwright Tim Toyama to produce the short film. Donahue was also the Executive Producer of the drama Day of Independence (2003) with Cedar Grove Productions.
Donahue produced the 2000 feature, Straight Right and won an Emmy Award for the documentary, Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003), broadcast on the PBS series, Independent Lens.
From 2000 to 2006, Donahue served as the first full-time Executive Director for the Humanitas Prize, an annual writer's award that celebrates films and television shows that not only entertain, but also enrich the viewing public.
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Chris Donahue
John Christopher Donahue is an American film and television producer. He began his career as a producer in television news and documentaries, then transitioned to narrative film and television at the American Film Institute. He has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for producing Visas and Virtue (1998), and an Emmy for his documentary Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003).
Donahue founded West Main Street Productions, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Producers Guild of America. He is a board member for the Humanitas Prize.
Donahue was born in Dallas, Texas. Donahue attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He did undergraduate studies at Loyola University New Orleans, where he received a bachelor's degree in Communications. He holds graduate degrees from the American Film Institute (MFA) and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (M.Div. and Th.M.).
One of the films he cited as early influences that he grew up watching include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The first film he ever watched in a theater was Robert Wise's film The Sound of Music.
Donahue's first professional job was at WWL-TV in New Orleans. Donahue received two consecutive New Orleans Press Club Awards, for the documentaries Russia: A Prison of Nations and Nicaragua: A Land Divided. Through PBS affiliate work he was selected as a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Fellow at WGBH in Boston. He produced hundreds of hours of local news, documentary, and children's television in New Orleans before moving to Los Angeles in 1991 to attend the American Film Institute (AFI).
After AFI, he worked for Paulist Productions as the Director of Development and was a co-producer on Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) written by John Wells, starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen. In 1998 he produced the short Visas and Virtue (1997), a narrative depiction of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. For this he received an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (shared with director Chris Tashima). He co-founded Cedar Grove Productions in 1996 with Tashima and playwright Tim Toyama to produce the short film. Donahue was also the Executive Producer of the drama Day of Independence (2003) with Cedar Grove Productions.
Donahue produced the 2000 feature, Straight Right and won an Emmy Award for the documentary, Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003), broadcast on the PBS series, Independent Lens.
From 2000 to 2006, Donahue served as the first full-time Executive Director for the Humanitas Prize, an annual writer's award that celebrates films and television shows that not only entertain, but also enrich the viewing public.