Christina Saliba

Christina Saliba never exactly planned to end up in film—she kicked things off out in the wild, wrangling marmots and prairie dogs, and even helping seal pups get their groove back. But then, somehow, she stumbled into the film scene, hammering out pitches for a doc company that wanted to dip its toes into wildlife stories. One of her ideas actually turned into a five-part series “Aging in the Wild” (“Vieillir dans la nature”) for TV5, which is kind of wild in itself. She hustled her way through the trenches, working as a production coordinator on everything from shorts to commercials, before landing at Goldrush Entertainment in 2017. There, she wore a bunch of hats—digging up new stories, putting together pitch decks, and basically being everywhere from the start of a project to the finish. Through Goldrush, she scored Associate Producer credits on movies with some big names—think Nicolas Cage in “A Score to Settle,” Josh Hartnett in “Most Wanted,” and Heather Graham in “A Place of Bones.” Christina’s got a stack of credentials, too, with stints at the Canadian Film Centre, Whistler Film Festival, a bunch of genre labs, and programs across Canada and even Reykjavik. She’s all about telling stories that put complicated, not-always-likable women front and center—plus, she’s pushing for more queer and BIPOC representation in film. She even snagged the Whistler Film Festival’s Power Pitch award for her psychological horror flick “White Noise,” and she’s picked up funding from pretty much every major Canadian film grant out there. Now, she’s diving into making more feminist and queer genre films—because honestly, the screen needs it.