Christine Lesiak is an Emmy nominated, Peabody Award winning producer, director and writer. 
Her national documentaries include In the White Man’s
Image, about the tragic attempt to “civilize” Native Americans; Monkey Trial,
winner of both the George Foster Peabody Award and the Writer’s Guild
Award; and The Road is All, an American Masters biography of Willa Cather.
Like her character Maggie in Let Me Go, Christine studied film-making at UCLA in the 70’s, but there all similarities end.