Award-winning film composer and screenwriter, Member of the European Film Academy. Christina was born in Nicosia on 28 April 1980. She studied music at King's College London (BMus Hons) and at City University London (MA, PhD) with honorary scholarship, receiving, among others, three awards in piano performance by festivals in London and Brussels. She has performed in Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Hungary. Soon, she became involved in film-making as a composer and screenwriter, beginning with music for the feature documentary 'The Island of Spies' (2004), and screenplay, music and sound design for the animation short 'Ants in a Jar' (2005). Since 2004, Christina has composed music for features and short films, receiving, among others, the Best Soundtrack Award by the Monaco International Film Festival in 2008 for the film 'Styx', of which she has also written the screenplay. Christina has also composed music and songs for the theatre, television, dance performances and media installations, while her screenplays have so far been produced in Cyprus, Greece, the U.S.A. and Lithuania. In 2012 the film 'Genesis 2:26', which she co-wrote and co-produced with Daniel Pace, and worked on its music and sound design, received the First Prize at the Videominuto Film Festival in Italy and, in December 2013, the same film also received the First Prize at the Kiev International Short Film Festival's section '100 films in 100 minutes'. Work on feature film projects includes music and sound design for the documentary feature 'Beloved Days' (2014) and music for the award-winning feature 'Fish 'n Chips' (2011). In terms of screenwriting, her latest short scripts produced are 'Rupert's Ship' (2013) in the United States, 'Clocked Up' (2012) in Lithuania, 'For Eternity' (2014) in Greece (the screenplay received the First Prize in the Micrografi Competition 2012), and 'Afterthoughts' (2014), while her feature screenplay 'The Life Beneath' is in pre-production. Christina has been nominated for Best Composer for the National Theatre Awards 2014 in her homeland, Cyprus.
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