"The team at CongestedCat Productions just seem like really amazing people who want to make art that helps people and heals people and helps bring us all together for a better future, a better planet." We reached out to Ali Naro of Movies OVER The Rainbow about writing a review of About a Donkey. She ended up watching it and enjoying it enough to say she wanted to write a post about our production company as a whole. She just sent us her incredibly moving post with this message, "I sweated for 3 days trying to figure out what your films did to my brain while I struggled to write, but I ended up discovering that you did good things. The blog ended up being more a piece about how your films have helped to heal my past than about your actual films themselves. Hope you don't mind. I just wrote where the muse of your work was taking me and it was taking me on a journey to just heal." We definitely don't mind, and we’re incredibly touched by her words. Give her post a read HERE.
Press
Christina on Go Guerilla Filmcast
Christina chatted crowdfunding, festivals, and filmmaking on episode 13 of Go Guerilla Filmcast. Give it a listen.
Christina Featured in the Queens Tribune
The Queens Tribune has released a cool series on Queens-based artists and I was chosen as the resident Filmmaker! Check it out, where I discuss my filmmaking career and our latest projects! I'm grateful for the write-up, but please note that, while there are also a few minor misquotes about the context of my childhood, a major error is that they cited me as the writer of About a Donkey instead of director. Kelsey Rauber is the writer! I'm still hoping they'll respond to my correction request for the online version.
UPDATE: Queens Tribune has since shut down but the article lives on via medium.
Christina Talks Crowdfunding & Audience Building
Christina talked crowdfunding and audience building on Forget the Box, the new podcast from Web Series platform Stareable.
10 To Watch Filmmakers in 2018: Christina Raia
Through an impressive group of judges, Christina was selected as one of the 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2018 by Independent Magazine!