Christine Stoddard is a broadcaster, filmmaker, and storyteller named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. Currently, she works in local news as a reporter and multimedia journalist at a TV station in Northern California. In her spare time, she co-hosts "Don't Mind If I Don't," a comedy web series with Aaron Gold, and runs Quail Bell, an award-winning boutique studio for her films and other creative projects.

Stoddard's feature-length art film, “Sirena’s Gallery,” is distributed by Summer Hill Entertainment and streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and other platforms. She is also known for authoring the critically-acclaimed play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares” and books such as Heaven Is a Photograph and Desert Fox by the Sea. 

"Shanda," co-written with Aaron Gold, is her latest short film; it's currently in post-production, with a Seed&Spark campaign here. Stoddard collaborated with director Tom Dunn on the narrative shorts “5 Ways I Didn’t Marry You." The artsy rom-com premiered at the New York Shorts International Film Festival and won an editing award from the NYWIFT/iWomanTV Festival. "Canarsie Pier," a collaboration with director Jacob Maximillian Baron, premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival's Women's Spotlight and is continuing its festival circuit. 

As director, her short film “De Colores (Chorus of Melancholy)” won Best Experimental Project at the Latino Film Market, while her short “Bottled” was nominated for Best ‘Short’ Short at the New York Long Island Film Festival and was a finalist in the JCAL 10-Minute Film Festival. Her short documentary, “Brick City Renaissance,” was a semi-finalist screened for the Newark Reel Stories Challenge, curated by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. 

Stoddard's words and images have appeared in Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Yes! Magazine, Mic, and beyond. She has had solo shows at the Queens Botanical Garden and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, where she was the inaugural artist-in-residence.

Stoddard graduated from Columbia Journalism School, where she directed a documentary on the Village Halloween Parade, and The City College of New York-CUNY, where she won the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship for her MFA projects in video and photography. Her talk show Badass Lady-Folk ran on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the public access channel of New York City, for two years while she was in graduate school at Columbia University.