Based in New York City, Cristina Ibarra grew up on the U.S./Mexico border between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  She is a Chicana filmmaker working in the realms of non-fiction, fiction and satire. Ibarra creates films that can be seen on public television, online, and in galleries, museums, schools and film festivals across the United States.

Her first hour-long PBS documentary, The Last Conquistador, created with John Valadez, had a national broadcast on POV this summer.  Her award-winning directorial debut, Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela was broadcast nationwide on the PBS series, ColorVision.  Latino Public Broadcasting commissioned her interstitial, Grandma’s Hip Hop.  Ibarra’s mini-film script, Wheels of Change, was selected for production at the New York International Latino Film Festival as a trailer for the festival sponsor, Banco Popular.  She is a founding member of fulana.org, a Latina interdisciplinary collective, where she creates award-winning satirical web-based interstitials such as Latino Plastic Cover, Lupe From the Block andAmnezac.

Creative Capital, Latino Public Broadcasting, the Paul Robeson Fund and the New York State Council for the Arts have all funded her work. She has been awarded a number of fellowships including one from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Latino Producers Academy and CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy.

Cristina Ibarra is also a founding member of the New York chapter of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and SubCine, the first Latino self-distribution collective. Ibarra is currently developing two projects: a documentary entitled Las Marthas, and a feature film entitled, Love & Monster Trucks.