PRA metadata viewChristopher Sprinkle worked on bad romantic comedies, low budget music videos and lots of commercials before he took more socially relevant jobs producing two international public affairs programs on Pacifica Radio ("The Morning Show" with Sonali Kolhatkar at KPFK and "Flashpoints" with Dennis Bernstein at KPFA.) His interview with Christian Parenti, author of "The Soft Cage: Surveillance In America" was published in the scholarly journal American Behavioral Scientist. He writes, edits, and produces radio documentaries, including "A Passel of Pomp & A Circus of Circumstance," on the history of major political party conventions in the United States, hosted by Amy Goodman. He also produces live event coverage for Pacifica, including both party conventions in 2004, G.W. Bush's second inauguration, and the inaugural broadcast of a South American cable news network in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 2004, he was Contributing Producer on the documentary film "The Ground Truth" about the physical and psychological effects on U. S. soldiers returning home from the war in Iraq.
Recently, Christopher wrote, produced, and edited a short documentary film about the Pacifica Radio Archives' Save Our Sounds Tour that was screened at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters' Annual Awards Conference.
Christopher is currently directing and editing a documentary film about MarchFourth Marching Band - a Fellini-esque band of more than 30 eccentric performers and musicians and their struggle to gain national fame. Living in Los Angeles, typically, he also writes screenplays including one about the War On Terror called "The Handsome Terrorist: A Very Dark Comedy."