Christina Lazaridi is an Academy Award—Oscar^® nominated screenwriter and an expert in dynamic story design and audience response. Projects she has authored, or actively developed, have won awards at Cannes (Caméra d’Or), Berlin (Golden Bear), Sundance, and SXSW film festivals, as well as the Ariel Awards in Mexico, among others. In 2018, she received the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay for Nobody’s Watching, co-written with director Julia Solomonoff.

Raised in Greece in a family of Asia Minor refugees, Christina’s writing practice centers on narratives of dislocation and survival — stories shaped by political upheaval, displacement, and the search for belonging. Current projects include the feature films House of Femen, a dramatic biopic of the Ukrainian feminist-activist movement, directed by Darya Zhuk, with Maria Bakalova attached; Cost of Living, produced by Maria Farinha Films and Ubaia Films, with Moara Passoni directing; and The Ones, co-written with Darya Zhuk, inspired by The Atlantic article by Jennifer Senior. In recent television work, Christina was the supervising script editor for Brothers, a European co-production political thriller set in Cyprus, created by Simon Farmakas.

Christina’s work sits at the intersection of high emotional-impact storytelling and narrative science. She is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and her three books on screenwriting methodology were commissioned by the Mediterranean Film Institute and the European Union’s Creative Europe Program. Between 2010 and 2019, Christina created the screenwriting track at Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and, in collaboration with Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute and Uri Hasson’s Lab, designed and conducted experimentation on narrative and memory. The outcome of this research was published by MIT’s Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

In addition to her writing and teaching commitments, Christina lectures internationally on storytelling techniques and runs an international consulting practice on story design and audience response. At Cine Qua Non, Christina has served as co-founder, development director, and core mentor since 2010.