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Christina Kallas is a filmmaker, book author and professor for film. From January 2005 through January 2014 she was the president of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE).

Screen credits as a writer and/or producer include the feature films Mothers, selected as an entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and for the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival; The Commissioner (1998), starring John Hurt and Armin Mueller-Stahl, in official competition at the Berlin Film Festival; I.D. (1994); Liebe Lügen (1997), winner of the First Film Award at the Munich Film Festival; the TV movie Männer sind wie Schokolade (1999); several episodes of the Best German TV-awarded series Edel & Starck (2001 – 2003) and of the Best German Television Series awarded Danni Lowinski (2010).
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In 2011 she relocated to New York City where she made her debut feature as a director, 42 Seconds of Happiness (2015). She is currently in pre-production with her second film as a director, The Rainbow Experiment.

Kallas earned her B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies at Freie Universität Berlin; during which time she was a Daimler-Benz-Stiftung fellow. She has taught at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (1997-2007); the International Film School in Cologne (2002 -2007); the Scuola Holden per le Techniche Narrative in Torino, Italy; and the Film Studies Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is currently teaching at Columbia University’s and at Barnard College’s Film Programs, as well as at The New School for Media Studies in New York City.

Kallas has served as commission chair for the German Federal Film Board (2003-2008) and as the artistic director of The Balkan Fund (2003-2010). In 2009, she initiated and chaired the First World Conference of Screenwriters held in Athens and in 2012 the Second World Conference of Screenwriters in Barcelona, thereby establishing it as an ongoing series (Warsaw 2014, Paris 2016.)

Christina Kallas is the author of six books in her three writing languages, among them: Creative Screenwriting: Understanding Emotional Structure and [http://www.amazon.com/Inside-The-Writers-Room-Conversations/dp/1137338105 Inside the Writers’ Room. Conversations with American TV Writers] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 and 2015). Additionally, Kallas has contributed chapters in books such as Confessions of a Screenwriter (Drehbuchautoren-Bekenntnisse, uvk, Konstanz 2007) and The Actor on Stage and on Screen (Kastaniotis, Athens 2008).