In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck took her own life during a live news broadcast in Sarasota, Florida, becoming the first person in history to commit suicide on air. Now, more than four decades later, actor Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to play the part of the troubled journalist in a version of her story. As Kate trawls through Christine's past to get ready for the role, tries to do justice to her memory, and finds her sense of self changed by the experience, Kate Plays Christine tells the tale of both women.

Picking up the thematic threads of his film Actress, director Robert Greene – along with cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Queen of Earth and Heaven Knows What) – pieces together a portrait of an infamous tragedy as well as an examination both of the performance process and of cinema's capacity to reveal the truth about anyone. Combining research, retellings and re-enactments in an effort reminiscent of Werner Herzog's best, Greene's blurring of fact and fiction represents an extraordinary experiment in documentary film-making – for which he won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

★★★★ Guardian

"Non-fiction filmmaking by way of psychological thriller" ★★★★★ The Skinny

"teasing, testing and vexingly brilliant" Variety

"Remarkable and captivating" A- Indiewire