Biography

Christina, a writer-director and a first-generation Greek-American born in the fabled Asbury Park, New Jersey, explores a mythic Americana and its fractured dreamscapes in each project she creates.

Her upcoming feature film, as writer-director, is HERE'S YIANNI!, which stars Julia Ormond, Kevin Pollak, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts and Joe Cortese. Inspired by a true story, in HERE'S YIANNI!, a wife's love is tested when her husband, a Greek-diner owner whose mind and memory are failing, imagines himself to be a late night TV talk show host.

Additionally, Christina directed and produced DEMON ON WHEELS, a documentary feature about an older "reborn to be wild" hot rodder, his woman and the 1968 resto-Mod Mustang that comes between them. The film debuted in selected theatres and on streaming video in the summer of 2015. Her first doc feature, the award-winning GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, is a personal look at how eminent domain affects a family and a small town, was broadcast on PBS stations in May 2009.

- IMDb mini biography by: Christina Eliopoulos