Writer and filmmaker Chris Paine played an important role in the rising popularity of environmentally and politically-conscious documentaries with his 2006 film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” The film’s engaging storytelling, hard-hitting journalistic investigation, and sense of humor helped bring some of the most important issues of the day into the debate forum, establishing the activist as one to watch in the growing field of documentary filmmaking.Chris Paine was born on May 24, 1961, in Palo Alto, CA – the region known as Silicon Valley for its abundance of high tech companies. He
