about

Christina D. Bartson is a filmmaker and archivist based in London with roots in the American Midwest. Her work explores the political economy of media and how narratives of conflict, social movements, and land are mobilized—and often metastasized—through archival materials.

She has served as an archival producer and associate producer on nonfiction productions for Vice News, National Geographic, Story Syndicate, Muck Media, ITVS, Expectation TV/Channel 4, The SpringHill Company, The Free Press, McGee Media, PBS, MTV Documentaries, HBO Documentaries, and Aubin Pictures. Before working in film, she was a digital media journalist at NPR and worked on the research and communications staff at the American Civil Liberties Union.

As a producer, archival producer, and associate producer, Christina has contributed to films that have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards and screened at Sundance, Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Tribeca, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and others. She was the Associate Producer on Angola Do You Hear Us? (Academy Award Shortlist 2023; DOC NYC Short List; Critics Choice Award nominee; Tribeca premiere; distributed by Paramount/MTV Documentary Films), directed by Cinque Northern and executive produced by Sheila Nevins.

Her directorial debut, Also Resisters (If/Then Shorts | Field of Vision), premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2025. As a director, Christina’s work has been supported by If/Then Shorts | Field of Vision, Platform London, the 2024 NBCUniversal Original Voices Fellowship, the 2023 Global Research Initiative Fellowship (NYU), the 2023 Moore Research Fellowship (Swarthmore College), and the 2022–2024 Diversabilities Scholarship at NYU, among others. She is a Steering Committee member of the Archival Producers Alliance.

Christina holds an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, where her research focused on critical media theory, ethnographic cinema, and war media, and a B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College.

She is currently developing a film about the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, supported by Platform and Arts Council England and developed with mentorship from director Sierra Pettengill through Field of Vision. Outside of film, she is a dancer and occasional photographer.