MFA Production Student
Professional Links & Recent Works
Christian Meola is a filmmaker and theater director from Albany, New York. His recent work focuses on unusual encounters between men, exploring the influence of male interpersonal dynamics on identity, sexuality, and self-expression. He works in narrative as well as documentary and video.
His films have premiered at IFC Center, Palm Springs ShortFest, Frameline, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Indie Memphis, MIX NYC, Oak Cliff, Sidewalk, aGLIFF/PRISM, Mammoth Lakes, Sick 'n' Wrong, Sydney Underground, Electric Forest Music Festival, and on Directors Notes, PBS, NoBudge, and Beyond the Short. He won Sick n' Wrong's "You're Special" award in 2020 and was a finalist for the Pandora Short Film Grant and the NewFest New Voices Filmmaker Grant in 2025.
Christian is also a programmer at Sun Pass Film Festival in Miami and the founder of Midnight Movie Theater, which curates trash, underground, misunderstood, and rarely screened films.
Areas of Interest: Narrative fiction, video art and experimental film, LGBTQ+, sexuality and identity, genre experimentation, theater and performance.