Christina Saliba
Producer
Christina Saliba is a queer Canadian-Lebanese film and theatre producer who started off her career as a wildlife biologist working with marmots, prairie dogs, and rehabilitating seal pups. She then fell into the world of film and started writing pitches for a documentary film production company looking to venture into wildlife docs; one of her ideas became a five-part mini-series on TV5 called “Aging in the Wild”, “Vieillir dans la nature.” She worked her way up the ladder as a production coordinator on shorts, features, and commercials. In 2017, she joined Goldrush Entertainment as a development executive and associate producer on A Score to Settle (Nicolas Cage), Most Wanted (Josh Hartnett), Bandit (Josh Duhamel), and A Place of Bones (Heather Graham).
In 2021, Saliba graduated from the Norman Jewison’s Film Program Producers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and won the Whistler Film Festival’s Power Pitch Competition for her psychological horror film, White Noise. In 2022, she also graduated from the Whistler Film Festival’s Producers’ Lab, the Women in Film and TV - Vancouver’s Genre Lab, Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s Horror Development Lab, the Reykjavik Talent Lab, the QEPC Television Mentorship Program, and the European Film Market Toolbox Program.
Her first theatre production was entitled Lesbian Speed Date from Hell and it premiered at Festival De La Bête Noire, Off-Just for Laughs, and Fierté Montreal in 2019. Thanks to the funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, and Conseil des arts de Montréal, she and this incredible team are able to bring Lesbian Wilderness Retreat from Hell to life.