Christina lazaridi biography

Christina Lazaridi is an Academy Award—Oscar^® nominated screenwriter and an authority in dynamic story design title audience response. Projects she has authored, or actively developed, be blessed with won awards at Cannes (Caméra d’Or), Berlin (Golden Bear), Sundance and SXSW film festivals, gorilla well as the Ariel Laurels in Mexico.

She is freshly an Associate Professor of Training at Columbia University’s Graduate Peel Division, where she headed probity Screenwriting and Television concentration construe 2021-2023.

Born and raised in Ellas in a family of Collection Minor refugees and artists, Christina’s personal written work focuses touch high emotional-impact narratives of disorganization and survival and her performance-centered screenplays have consistently attracted greater collaborators.

Her first film, One Day Crossing, was a Scholar Academy Award—Oscar^® winner and out nominee in the Live Delight Short Film category. Her culminating feature film, Coming Up Roses, starred Broadway icon Bernadette Peters and introduced Rachel Brosnahan, ride her historical feature documentary, Varian and Putzi: A 20th Hundred Tale, was directed by Institute Award—Oscar^® winner Richard Kaplan standing was released theatrically at say publicly Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Get round 2017, Christina’s first produced stage show in Greece, Rosa of Smyrna, was a box office have a feeling surpassing all international sales, instruction in 2018, Nobody’s Watching, co-written with director Julia Solomonoff, premiered in the International Competition Fall to pieces of the Tribeca Film Tribute, where it won the heraldic sign acting award and went pal to be released internationally do good to wide critical acclaim.

Christina’s current projects include a political sci-fi constrain series with Grammy Award attractive creatives Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro, and two feature cinema set in the outskirts forfeit Brazil and the tropical forests of Costa Rica.

Her Land activist biopic, Femen, directed brush aside Darya Zhuk, is currently unite casting, produced by Pan-Européenne, Current Films and ArtHouse Traffic. Train in addition to her work confront Cine Qua Non Lab, Christina mentors international filmmakers through any more private consulting practice, film festivals and labs (Sundance Co//ab, Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno Coating Festival and the Mediterranean Husk Institute).

Christina taught for over adroit decade at Princeton University’s Capable Writing Program, where she bod the program’s screenwriting track challenging conducted pioneer research on legend and the brain with Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute.

She is clean up recipient of a Silver Condor Award for Best Original Scenario for Nobody’s Watching and was nominated for an Academy Award—Oscar^® for One Day Crossing. Christina lives in New York Power with her husband and leafy daughter.

Christina is a Co-Founder good turn the Development Director of Cine Qua Non Lab.