Christina Weiss Lurie

Lurie was born to a secular Jewish family in Mexico City, the daughter of Lisa and Stanley A. Weiss. Weiss Lurie holds both United States and Mexican citizenship. She has one brother, Anthony. She moved to London at the age of ten. She attended and graduated from Yale University with a double major in theater and history of art. She then continued her study at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in England, where she dropped out to "discover the world." ==Career==

Film and television After Webber, Weiss moved to Paris. Interested in pursuing a career in cinema, she next headed to Los Angeles, where she worked for Aspect Ratio's Ron Molder, heading his independent film production company (which had produced I Love You to Death in 1990). The same report describing this meeting refers to her as a former actress, working for that company. through which she has served as a variety of producer roles (executive, co-executive, etc.) on independent features. and Rage (2009). Weiss Lurie also established the documentary film company, Screen Pass Pictures, in 2007, with her business partner (and then husband) Jeffrey Lurie, in conjunction with the Lurie Family Foundation. Under the Screen Pass Pictures banner, Weiss Lurie was executive producer for Sergio (2009), also in 2011, she partnered with Alan Barnette to develop both scripted and unscripted television shows. In 2017, Weiss Lurie founded a further company to succeed Vox3 and Screen Pass, the film production company Fourth & Twenty Eight Films, with the stated aim of "focus[ing] on feature film and television series production". EYP's Tackling Breast Cancer and Go Green initiatives earned the team the "2011 Sport Team of the Year" award from Beyond Sport, a global organization that promotes, develops and funds the use of sports to create positive social change across the world. Weiss Lurie is also a member of the NFL's Green Club working group, a committee of club and league staff members who help determine and direct the league's environmental initiative. == Philanthropy ==

In 1995, Weiss Lurie founded the Eagles Youth Partnership (EYP), what would become the Eagles charitable arm. EYP focused on literacy, vision, and after-school programs, and provided eye exams, glasses, and books to over 50,000 low-income children annually in the Greater Philadelphia region (through its Eagles Eye Mobile, and Eagles Book Mobile). LINK APPEARS PERMANENTLY BROKEN.--> As of this date, Weiss Lurie also serves on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 2007, Weiss Lurie helped to establish the Lurie Family Foundation which focused on autism and cancer research. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. == Awards and recognition==

In 2005, Philadelphia's EYP charitable organisation, led by Weiss Lurie, received the inaugural Steve Patterson Award for Excellence in Sports Philanthropy. In 2008, the organisation's Go Green Campaign won the Ongoing Commitment Award from the Environmental Media Association. In 2010, Weiss Lurie was a recipient of Drexel University's LeBow College of Business Leaders of the Year award. produced the movie Inside Job (2010), detailing the financial crisis of 2008; it won that year's Academy Award (Oscar) for best documentary film feature, on February 27, 2011. In a released statement, the Luries said they were “humbled” by the award. == Personal life ==

In a pre-production meeting for I Love You To Death, Weiss met Jeffrey Lurie (grandson of theater owner Philip Smith); they married in 1992 in Gstaad, Switzerland Weiss Lurie is a contemporary art collector. ==Further reading==