---
name: "Christine Cynn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christine-cynn"
fi1m_id: "christine-cynn"
imdb_id: "nm2964327"
tmdb_id: 1349420
wikidata_id: "Q95672884"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T23:51:31.724298+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Christine Cynn

## Identity

Christine Cynn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christine-cynn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christine-cynn
- **IMDb ID:** nm2964327
- **TMDB ID:** 1349420
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95672884
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95672884, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2964327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1349420

Producer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 2012–2014
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95672884, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2964327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1349420

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Act of Killing*](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Christine Cynn is a director and producer of documentary films. She co-directed and co-produced *The Act of Killing* (2012) with Joshua Oppenheimer and an anonymous Indonesian collaborator. She also co-directed *The Globalisation Tapes* (2003) with Oppenheimer.

Educated at Harvard University, Cynn received a Fulbright Scholarship to Uganda. She has directed *Shooting Ourselves* (2016) and was a founding member of the Vision Machine Film Project in London. She has worked as a researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project and written screenplays for FilmFour.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, asiapacificscreenawards.com, zkm.de.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *The Act of Killing* (2012), Fi1m 88, Co-Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md)

### Crew (1)

- *The Look of Silence* (2014), Fi1m 87, Thanks, Additional Camera — [page](https://film.one/film/the-look-of-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Shooting Ourselves* (2016), Director
- *The Look of Silence* (2014), Thanks, Additional Camera — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-look-of-silence.md)
- *The Act of Killing* (2012), Producer, Co-Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md)
- *The Globalisation Tapes* (2003), Director, Producer, Editor
- *Land of Enchantment* (2000), Director
- *The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase* (1998), Co-Director, Editor

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