Chris Paine is the co-writer and director of the Revenge of the Electric Car (2011). His prior work includes his documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?   released by Sony in 2006 to become one of the more successful documentaries of recent times.  Chris has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now,  and Science Friday on NPR.   He has toured nationally to speak including venues at Princeton, Brown, Stanford, and the Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice.  Film projects as executive producer include Mark Neale's "Charge", "Faster!" and "No Maps for These Territories."  Chris was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Colgate University in New York.  He co-founded the counter-spin site "counterspill.com" counterspill.com, and supports the work of the Rainforest Action Network, Impro Theater in Los Angeles, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation in San Francisco.