Who is Cristina?

Cristina Lo Presti is a young woman, "just made of heart" as her mom says, although she says it in Sicilian and it sounds a bit different. Cristina got involved in the project in October when me (Laura) and the other Cristina (yeah, popular name on the team) were about to launch our crowdfunding campaign on Ulule. Cristina got in touch with me as she wanted some experience filming and editing and when she learnt that I was actually fundraising, she wasn't much interested. However she helped us with camera and sound on the pitch video we did for Ulule and my pitch must have been very convincing, as after that she totally committed to the project "willing to be doing anything it takes to get it made". Her mum is probably right!

Officially Cristina is our press agent, but she does all sorts of things, like taking care of screenings during presentations, getting original ideas, contacting people, keeping the enthusiasm high. She made a video for us trying to explain how crowdfunding should work in a real community, a video that makes me and Cristina sob each time. Now she is taking care of a Punishment Island support Xmas Special - looking forward myself to see what she creates.

Although we didn't speak to each other then, me and Cristina graduated together in Human Geography on the same day, me with a thesis on Malawi, her on India. She  then she went on to the Master Degree in Geographic and Anthropological Studies.  Cristina has cooperated as trainee with the Italian Journal of Geography and she recently attended a Direction class at a cinema school in Florence.  She directed the documentaries "As social reading of the Florentine squares" and "Central Market of Plural Vision". She seeks the best way to combine scientific and visual research methods and she  is now writing her thesis about street art and public space. 

Next time, she will be involved in filming and editing, that's my promise to her and it will work magic (literally).

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