Christina Batte

director/composer

Manhattan, New York, United States

Christina Batte is a filmmaker, composer, archivist, and educator. Christina’s passion for music and motion pictures began in elementary school after becoming interested in skateboarding videos. Christina is in her last year of undergrad at Tisch School of the Arts, where she studies film and television. Christina is majorly involved on campus. As NYU Program Board’s Chair of Film, she collaborates with cinematic distribution companies to organize free film screenings for the student body. Christina aims to diversify the film industry by passing down her technological knowledge to young femmes of color. Within a year at the Lower East Side Girl’s Club, she has trained over 30 high school and middle school girls in Audio engineering, songwriting, music production, podcasting, and filmmaking.