Kris Skeie
Program Committee Chair
Frazzled Films Inc., CEO, Screenwriter
Kristine Skeie is a screenwriter and earned first place in the 2018 NFMLA’s Los Angeles: On Location contest as writer, co-director, and co-producer for the short This Is My LA, which highlights wheelchair-accessible places around LA. Kris also wrote and co-produced the award-winning comedy short, End of the World. She has also found success writing scenes for various WGA events. Earlier in her career, after moving from New York to LA, she worked in television production for shows produced by Miller/Boyett, Carsey-Werner, Decter/Strauss and Mike Binder, and also worked in development at Castle Rock Entertainment, and at Warner Brothers for Joel Surnow.
Kris co-authored two female-driven comedies that were sold to Gold Circle Films and New Line Cinema. Her indie feature script was a finalist California Women’s Film Festival feature screenwriting contest and received an honorable mention at the Women’s Independent Film Festival. She also took second place at the Las Vegas Film Festival for a comedy pilot, and earned the Bronze Award in the Family Film Competition of the Hollywood Screenplay Contest.
Kris is also an avid volunteer and co-created and participates in a program called Arts Alive. Now in its twelfth year, the wildly popular one-day event shares the talents of dozens of renowned artists with elementary school students giving them an opportunity to take a peek into the careers of those in the creative community. She was a volunteer writing consultant and part of the advisory board of Camp Reel Stories for two years, which is a film boot camp for young girls. She is now taking on a similar role for Girls IN Focus where she is the Program Committee Chair and has been involved with curriculum development, among other initiatives. Kris currently resides in Rancho Palos Verdes with her husband and two daughters, Taylor and Harper.