Biography

Christina Saliba started off her career as a wildlife biologist working with marmots, prairie dogs, and rehabilitating seal pups. She then fell into the world of film and started writing pitches for a documentary film production company looking to venture into wildlife docs; one of her ideas became a five-part mini-series on TV5 called "Aging in the Wild", "Vieillir dans la nature."

She worked her way up the ladder as a production coordinator on shorts, features, and commercials. In 2017, she joined Goldrush Entertainment as a development executive, discovering new intellectual property, creating pitch materials, and providing support in pre- to post-production. Through Goldrush Entertainment she was an Associate Producer on A Score to Settle (Nicolas Cage), Most Wanted (Josh Hartnett), and A Place of Bones (Heather Graham).

She is a recent graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Producers' Lab, the Whistler Film Festival's Producers' Lab, the GEMS' Genre Lab, the Blood in the Snow Horror Development Lab, the Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab, QEPC TV Production Mentorship, and the EFM Fiction Toolbox Programme, where she refined her skills as a storyteller, idea generator, producer, and marketer. As a filmmaker her mandate is to place messy, complex, and disagreeable women at the forefront of storytelling. As well as highlighting both queer and BIPOC stories and artists to bring authenticity and diversity to the silver screen. She also won the Whistler Film Festival's Power Pitch Competition for her psychological horror film, White Noise, and has been a recipient of funding from the Montreal, Quebec, and Canada art councils, the Harold Greenberg Fund's shorts-to-features program, SODEC, the Canadian Film Centre, Canadian Media Fund and Telefilm Canada.

She is now venturing into producing more feminist and queer genre films and series for the silver screen.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christina Saliba