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Christina DiPasquale

Christina DiPasquale

Christina DiPasquale (director, writer, producer, archival researcher) is the founder and CEO of Balestra Media, a storyteller and strategist advancing a more just and participatory media, a history researcher, and a documentary filmmaker. She has executive produced and scripted several short documentary films for groups that include the Youth First Initiative and Public Welfare Foundation. She has led publicity and social impact campaigns for films including “Dirty Wars,” “When Elephants Fight,” and “Unmanned,” and the series “Truth and Power.” Her clients have included the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Rescue Committee, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, MediaJustice, and Free Press. Christina has worked with Chelsea Manning, families separated by the Muslim ban, and youth in Charlottesville and Ferguson, to tell their stories through the news media. She is a NALIP Latino Media Market fellow (2022), UnionDocs Early Production Lab alumna (2022), senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Burn Independent Video Archive. Christina’s original archival research has been used by the Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.