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This week’s featured member, filmmaker, TV personality, and video artist Christine Stoddard, knows the value of that community firsthand. Christine was featured on The NYWIFT Podcast, where members get the opportunity to share their stories, discuss their work, and give listeners a closer look at the people shaping our industry.
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Christine (left) hosting on set
Christine Stoddard is a multimedia storyteller, filmmaker, and artist named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. She works in local news as an on-air reporter and multimedia journalist. Outside of that, she co-hosts “Don’t Mind If I Don’t,” a comedy web series with Aaron Gold, and makes other creative storytelling projects under Quail Bell, an award-winning boutique studio.
Filmed at Richmond, VA’s 1708 Gallery during the pandemic, Stoddard’s feature-length art film, “Sirena’s Gallery,” is distributed by Summer Hill Entertainment and streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and other platforms. She 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.
“Yupin’s World” is her latest documentary and recently began its festival circuit. “Shanda,” co-written with Aaron Gold, is her latest short fiction film; it’s currently in post-production, with a Seed&Spark campaign here. 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, premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival’s Women’s Spotlight.
As director, 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’s words and images have appeared in Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Yes! Magazine, Mic, City Limits, The Plumas Sun, and beyond. She has had solo shows at the Queens Botanical Garden and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, where she was the inaugural artist-in-residence. Her artwork draws inspiration from her personal and professional connections to journalism, adventures in reporting, and thoughts on media theory.
Stoddard earned her Master’s of Science from Columbia Journalism School, directing a documentary on the Village Halloween Parade. She also earned an MFA from The City College of New York-CUNY, winning the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship for her interdisciplinary video and photography. Her talk show Badass Lady-Folk ran on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the public access channel of New York City, for two years while she was in graduate school at Columbia University. Her alma mater is Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated with honors for degrees in Film, English, and Product Innovation.
In addition to showcasing Christine’s award-winning short as part of the NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival (the latest edition of which is now accepting submissions!) and hosting her on The NYWIFT Podcast, we were proud to feature Christine in our Meet the New NYWIFT Member blog series.
Connect with Christine Stoddard on her website www.christinestoddard.com , check out her new storytelling studio Quail Bell, and follow her on Instagram at @stoddardtv.
(All images courtesy of Christine Stoddard)
