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Christina Lazaridi is an Academy Award—Oscar ® nominated screenwriter and an expert in dynamic story design and audience response. Projects she has authored, or actively developed, have won awards at Cannes (Caméra d’Or), Berlin (Golden Bear), Sundance and SXSW film festivals, as well as the Ariel Awards in Mexico.
Christina Lazaridi is known for Nobody's Watching (2017), One Day Crossing (2001) and Coming Up Roses (2011).
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Christina Lazaridi ’92, an Oscar-nominated writer who teaches screenwriting in the creative writing program, has been wrestling with that question for more than two decades. PAW spoke with the writer about the film business, how poetry relates to screenwriting, and what drives her work.
Christina Lazaridi ’92, a veteran screenwriter who also teaches at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, explains that the writer’s job is to “create powerful roles,” which in turn attract major actors and help to secure the financing needed to make a film.
Oct 30, 2020 · The first film Assistant Professor and alumna Christina Lazaridi ’98 set in Greece, Rosa of Smyrna, came out in 2017. When I asked her why she chose to write about her home country for the first time after almost 20-years as a writer, she chuckled.
About. I have 20+ years of experience writing and developing award-winning, emotionally impactful narratives for independent and international film productions....
Prompted by demand for screenwriting courses, Princeton’s creative writing program — known for its focus on poetry and fiction — has hired Academy Award nominee Christina Lazaridi ’92 as its first full-time screenwriting faculty member this year and expanded its offerings in the field.
