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Christina D. Bartson

(she/her/hers)

Manager, Development at Video Consortium

London, England GB

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About

Christina D. Bartson is a filmmaker and archivist based in London with roots in the Midwest. Her projects consider the political economy of media and how narratives about conflict, social movements, and land are metastasized and mobilized through archival materials. Christina has worked as an archival producer and associate producer for productions with Vice News, National Geographic, Story Syndicate, The Free Press, Muck Media, ITVS, Expectation TV/Channel 4, The SpringHill Company, McGee Media, PBS, MTV Documentaries, HBO Documentaries, Aubin Pictures, and more. Before working in film, she was a digital media journalist at National Public Radio and served on the research staff and communications teams at the American Civil Liberties Union. Her directorial debut, Also Resisters (If/Then Shorts | Field of Vision), premiered at Big Sky Film Festival in 2025. Her work as a director has been supported by If/Then Shorts | Field of Vision, 2024 NBCUniversal Original Voices Accelerator Fellowship, 2023 Global Research Initiative Fellowship (New York University), 2023 Moore Research Fellowship (Swarthmore College), and the 2022-2024 Diversabilities Scholarship at New York University. She’s a member of the Archival Producers Alliance and Documentary Producers Alliance. She holds her M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University where her graduate research focused on critical media theory, ethnographic cinema, and war media, and her B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College. She is the Manager of Development at Video Consortium. christina@videoconsortium.org

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