Christene Browne

Librettist (Inertia)

Christene Browne is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist and librettist with over 30 years experience in the film and television industry. Her work which most often deals with marginalized communities has been sold and screened all over the world. Browne is the first Black woman to direct and write a dramatic feature film in Canada. She recently completed a short, animated documentary on famed novelist Austin Clarke and her third novel, a science fiction allegory that deals with climate change and race. She is currently developing an experimental animated film, her first opera, Inertia, a contemplation on love isolation and death and teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University.