Christie Will

Christie Will Wolf is the re-founding Chief Executive Officer and President of Women in Film Vancouver BC, leading the organization’s renewed mission to advance advocacy, mentorship, industry access, festival visibility, and career development for women across British Columbia’s screen sector.

An award-winning Canadian writer, director, producer, entrepreneur, and mentor, Christie brings decades of experience across feature film, television, streaming, theatre, and international production to the organization’s next chapter. She is the founder of Extraordinarily Unordinary Entertainment, an independent production company focused on feature films, female-driven screen stories, and cinematic projects with strong emotional, commercial, and cultural appeal. She is also the founder of Your Living Legacy, Christie’s documentary and legacy storytelling arm.

While she continues to executive produce select international television movies, Christie’s current creative focus is rooted in feature filmmaking, documentary storytelling, festival-building, women-led stories, and ambitious screen projects across Canada and beyond.

Extended Biography:

Christie has built one of the most prolific careers in North American television and streamer movies, with work reaching audiences across major networks, studios, and platforms. Her films are known for their emotional accessibility, commercial appeal, strong female perspectives, and ability to move fluidly across genres. She has worked with an extraordinary range of performers, including Patrick Swayze, Tim Curry, Pamela Anderson, Vivica A. Fox, Jenna Dewan, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Simon Rex, Donna Mills, Loni Anderson, Linda Gray, Morgan Fairchild, Nicolette Sheridan, Bethany Joy Lenz, Sharon Lawrence, Luke Macfarlane, Chris Parnell, Tony Cavalero, Lee Majors, Meredith Baxter, and Michael Gross, among many others.

Christie has earned multiple Canadian Awards for Best Screenwriting and Best Director in 2019, 2020, and 2022. She has also received international festival recognition including Best Director, Best Film, and Best Sci-Fi Film for projects she has written, directed, and produced. In 2020, she was honoured with the British Columbia Directors Guild of Canada Legacy Award. In March 2024, she was nominated for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards, presented by Women of Influence, and in 2022 she was selected as one of five emerging series creators for RBC’s SeriesFest initiative at the Toronto International Film Festival. She is also a recipient of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award, a Canadian honour recognizing humanitarian service, perseverance, and leadership.

Christie’s leadership is rooted in both industry experience and lived resilience. Raised in Northern Ontario, Canada, her path into storytelling was shaped by performance, visual instinct, and early personal loss. Orphaned at 10 and 14, she later attended boarding school during its first year of co-education — an experience that would deeply inform her lifelong interest in female identity, survival, reinvention, class, and the emotional lives of girls and women on screen.

Before moving behind the camera, Christie trained and worked as an actress. She studied performing arts at Emerson College and the College of Charleston, with a foundation in acting and musical theatre, and spent years on stage before shifting her focus toward writing, directing, and producing. She later earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Film Production from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She also studied The Mesiner Techinque for years at Playhouse West in Los Angeles where her career began.

In Los Angeles, where she worked across acting, writing, development, production, and unscripted television while building her foundation in the entertainment industry from the ground up. Her early experience included work as a producer and camera operator for 495 Productions, the company behind Jersey Shore, as well as on other MTV reality series. She also served as Head of Development for Paula Abdul during the launch of Abdul’s Bravo reality series Hey Paula. That period placed Christie inside the height of the pre-social-media celebrity era, when public image, tabloid narratives, paparazzi culture, and early reality television were reshaping entertainment. Long before Instagram, TikTok, and direct-to-audience storytelling changed the relationship between artists and the public, Christie witnessed firsthand how women in the spotlight were framed, consumed, judged, and often misunderstood. That experience continues to influence her work as a filmmaker, particularly her interest in female identity, public perception, survival, and the stories women are rarely allowed to control for themselves.

Determined to move deeper into scripted storytelling, Christie transitioned into feature development and production, working in the orbit of filmmaker Peter Berg before later working within a division of Yari Film Group. During this period, she gained hands-on experience across feature development, production, and behind-the-scenes storytelling, earning co-producer credits and working on films including Hollywood and Wine, starring David Spade, Norm Macdonald, Chazz Palminteri, Chris Kattan, and Pamela Anderson; Christmas in Wonderland, starring Patrick Swayze, Tim Curry, Carmen Electra, and Chris Kattan; and Blonde and Blonder, starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards.

On these projects, Christie also directed making-of and companion pieces, giving her a front-row education in how feature films were built, sold, marketed, and shaped for audiences beyond the screen. She had the opportunity to learn from established comedic filmmakers including Bob Clark, the director of A Christmas Story and Porky’s, whose work helped shape her understanding of comedy, tone, performance, and commercial storytelling. Those early sets also clarified the kind of director she wanted to become: prepared, actor-focused, emotionally clear, and deeply respectful of the people in front of and behind the camera.

Alongside her film and television work, Christie brought her foundation in actor training back to British Columbia. After nearly a decade of study at Playhouse West in Los Angeles, where she trained in the Sanford Meisner technique, she co-founded The Beaumont Studios in Vancouver — a pioneering black box theatre and multidisciplinary arts space that continues to operate today. As Artistic Director, she helped establish a creative home for actor-driven work, performance training, and independent theatre, providing an early stage for many Canadian actors who would go on to build successful careers in film, television, and theatre.

Christie’s transition into directing began with her short film Dysfunction, which earned critical acclaim and won the Audience Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. She went on to write, direct, and produce her first feature film, Slightly Single in L.A., starring Jenna Dewan, Lacey Chabert, Simon Rex, Jonathan Bennett, Chris Kattan, and Haylie Duff. The film became an early acquisition for Netflix as the platform began its expansion into streaming.

Following the success of Slightly Single in L.A., Christie wrote and directed Boy Toy, acquired by Lionsgate and starring Mircea Monroe, Dawn Olivieri, Morgan Fairchild, Simon Rex, and Kevin Farley. She also wrote A Holiday Heist, starring Vivica A. Fox, Lacey Chabert, Chris Kattan, and Rick Malambri. Her early collaborations with actors who would later become central to the television movie and holiday film space placed Christie among the filmmakers whose work anticipated and helped shape one of television’s most commercially powerful spaces for women-led storytelling.

After her first three feature films, Christie made the difficult choice to return to Canada more permanently as a mother. What could have been seen as a career detour became one of her greatest professional reinventions. Seeking stability while raising her children, she pivoted into television and streamer movies — a strategic move that allowed her to continue directing, writing, producing, and building a substantial body of work within Vancouver’s rapidly growing production hub.

Over the past fifteen years, Christie has also played a meaningful role in mentoring directors, writers, performers, and emerging creative leaders across the industry. Many filmmakers who first shadowed, assisted, or learned on her sets have gone on to build acclaimed careers of their own. Her commitment to mentorship is closely tied to her advocacy for women and mothers in film and television, and to building more humane, family-conscious, and sustainable production environments across North America.

Today, through Women in Film Vancouver BC and the WIF Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Christie is focused on building a stronger, more visible, and more sustainable platform for women working across film, television, streaming, and independent media. Her leadership brings together decades of experience as an actress, camera operator, producer, development executive, theatre founder, artistic director, writer, director, mother, entrepreneur, mentor, and advocate.

Christie holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Film Production from the University of British Columbia and studied performing arts at Emerson College and the College of Charleston. She splits her time between Vancouver and Los Angeles and is the proud mother of two daughters.