Christina D. Bartson is a versatile producer, archival producer, and researcher with 5 years of experience in feature-length and short-form production across independent documentary film and broadcast TV. She brings a background in broadcast journalism and archival-intensive academic and production research, and a strong interest in politics, history, archive, crime, and justice.
Skills include sensitive interview access, conducting interviews remotely or location, setting up locations, securing premiere crew talent, specialist historical and archival research, post-production organization, writing research briefs, writing pitches, managing budgets, FOIA requesting and investigative journalism, licensing and clearances for archival, as well as fair use evaluation.
Happy working independently or closely with a team. I aspire to make films which are moving, cinematic, nuanced in their storytelling, and showcase voices which are too often overlooked.
Christina has worked as producer, archival producer, and associate producer for productions with Vice News, DialTone Films, Expectation TV, The SpringHill Company, McGee Media, PBS, MTV Documentaries, HBO Documentaries, Aubin Pictures, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Before film, she worked as a digital media journalist at National Public Radio.
Experience on Academy Award shortlisted teams in key creative roles and on projects that have screened and won awards at HotDocs, DOC NYC, Tribeca Film Festival, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and more. Most recently, she was the Associate Producer for Angola Do You Hear Us? (Academy Award Shortlist 2023; DOC NYC Shortlisted, Critic’s Choice Award for Best Short Documentary Nominee; Tribeca Film Festival premiere; distribution: Paramount/MTV Documentaries) under director and editor Cinque Northern with executive producer Sheila Nevins.
Her directing work has been supported by If/Then Shorts | Field of Vision, 2024 NBC Universal Original Voices Accelerator Fellowship, 2023 Global Research Initiatives Fellowship (New York University), 2023 Moore Research Fellowship (Swarthmore College), and more. She’s a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and Archival Producers Alliance.
She holds her M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University where her graduate research focused on critical media theory, ethnographic cinema, and war media, and her B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College.
She based in London and New York.
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