19th May 2012
Christina Antonakos-Wallace is an emerging documentary filmmaker with a passion to use creative means to work towards social justice.
Her project with WINGS and ROOTS has received the EuroMedia Award for Culture of Diversity, and her short film Article of Faith won the Change Maker Award with the Media that Matters Film Festival.
Based in New York City, she works as a freelance filmmaker for NGOs, and facilitates youth video production and political education programs with high school students at the organization Global Action Project.
Christina graduated at the top of her class at Parsons School of Design with a B.F.A. in Integrated Design, and with honors from the New School with a B.A. in Sociology in 2006. While in University, she supplemented her interest in filmmaking New School's Media Studies MA program, where she took classes with Academy-Award Winning director Cynthia Wade and assisted veteran director Barbara Hammer. Her studies were funded by generous support of the MTV's "Fight for Your Rights" scholarship. Following university, she received a Fellowship from Humanity in Action, which brought her to intern with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in Berlin.
WITH WINGS AND ROOTS began as a video-installation as part of Christina's university thesis work, but is ultimately a personal project that comes out of years of exploration of her own cultural identity, and involvement in racial justice and immigrant rights activism.