Christine Stoddard is an American-Salvadoran creator, multimedia journalist, artist, filmmaker, and one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. Currently, she works in local news as a morning reporter. She's also developing two comedy web series with Aaron Gold, including the edutainment title "Don't Mind If I Don't." 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 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, is now making its festival circuit. Stoddard's feature-length art film, “Sirena’s Gallery,” is distributed by Summer Hill Entertainment and streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and other platforms. Stoddard 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, where she won the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship for video and photography.