Christina began her acting career as a teenager, starring in cult films such as Suburbia, Boys Next Door, and Dudes, all directed by Penelope Spheeris.
She then moved to New York City, where she studied at Playwright's Horizons and formed her own theatre company, POW productions. Christina wrote, produced, and starred in From the Heart, which premiered at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, as well as several other off-Broadway plays.
After establishing herself in the Los Angeles theatre scene, Christina wrote and starred in her first short film, Disco Man, alongside Alan Gelfant and Annette Murphy. She then went on to create the black and white noir comedy, Blow Me, which screened at several underground film festivals.
Christina was one of the few women accepted into Fox Searchlight's director's program, Fox Search Lab, where she directed, wrote, and starred in the short film version of her feature film script, Slice, which screened at Cannes.
Her short film, So Hot for You, was featured in the Focus on Females directors program alongside Miranda July, Sofia Coppola, and Andrea Arnold's early work. Christina's The Ophelia project can be seen on YouTube, and her short film, Lone, starring Pat Healy, screened at the Ballston Spa film festival in New York.
Christina has been featured in Media Directions UK's Female Filmmaking Success issue and Flaunt magazine's Big Picture column about her feature film debut, Perfection.
Slice, the feature screenplay now titled Perfection, was one of five contenders for the IFP Best Screenplay award and was selected for the IFP market, winning the Adrienne Shelly Female Directing Grant and chosen as IFP's "Spotlight Screening" of the year, sponsored by Time Warner and SAG indie.
Christina won Best Actor and Best Narrative Feature for Perfection at the Oxford Film Festival. Perfection also screened at the San Francisco International Women's Film Festival, the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, the RIO Cinema in London, the Quad Cinema in NYC, and Laemmle's Santa Monica in California.
Christina's upcoming project is the dark romantic comedy Expecting Grace, which will shoot in France, and she is also in development for the macabre sex comedy Dig Me, which will shoot in Los Angeles.
