Christine Stoddard is an American-Salvadoran creator, multimedia journalist, artist, filmmaker, and one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. Currently, she’s developing the web series “Art B*tch! Movies” and “Don’t Mind If I Don’t” with Aaron Gold. Her short “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 her short doc “Brick City Renaissance” was a semi-finalist screened for the Newark Reel Stories Challenge. Recently, she collaborated on the narrative shorts “5 Ways I Didn’t Marry You,” with Tom Dunn. The film premiered at the New York Shorts International Film Festival and won an editing award from the NYWIFT/iWomanTV Festival. Her 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. Stoddard graduated from Columbia Journalism School, where she directed a documentary on the Village Halloween Parade, and The City College of New York-CUNY, winning the prestigious Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship.