Christina Lazaridi is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and an expert in dynamic story design and audience response currently working in both film and TV. Projects she has authored, or actively developed, have won awards at Cannes (Camera D' Or) and Berlin Film Festivals (Golden Bear), Sundance, SXSW and the Ariels (Mexican Oscars). She is a co-founder and main development expert of the internationally renowned development think-tank, Cine Qua Non Lab, recognised by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences for its expertise developing award-winning properties. Lazaridi serves as Head of Studies at the Mediterranean Film Institute and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division. Christina is a recipient of a Silver Condor Award for best screenplay for her work in Nobody’s Watching her most recent screenplay House of Femen (dir. Darya Zhuk) is produced by Zephyr Film UK and is currently in casting.