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, Muck Media, ITVS, Expectation TV/Channel 4, The SpringHill Company, McGee Media, PBS, MTV Documentaries, HBO Documentaries, and Aubin Pictures. 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. As a producer, archival producer, and associate producer she’s worked on feature and short non-fiction films that’ve been shortlisted for an Academy Award and screened and won awards at HotDocs, DOC NYC, Tribeca Film Festival, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and more. She was the Associate Producer for Angola Do You Hear Us? (Academy Award Shortlist 2023; DOC NYC Shortlisted, Critic’s Choice Award for Best Short Documentary Nominee; Tribeca Film Festival premiere; distribution: Paramount/MTV Documentaries) under director and editor Cinque Northern with executive producer Sheila Nevins. 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. Her directorial debut film, Also Resisters, premieres at Big Sky Film Festival in February 2025. She’s a member of the Archival Producers Alliance and Documentary Producers Alliance. Photos are a hobby and the ones here show favorite people and places. 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.