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Christina Kelly saw the film Breathless at the impressionable age of 17 and fell instantly in love with jump cuts, billowing puffs of cigarette smoke, and the movies. Her career in pictures started started with a stint as an intern on Dazed and Confused during a summer in Austin. From there she followed her unique path from shooting super 8 films, working at Film Video Arts in NYC, attending art school (MFA, Bard College), editing educational videos in Rome, and back to New York where she has worked on feature films, television programs, commercials and corporate videos.
Christina was the assistant editor on the critically acclaimed films

Man Push Cart (Sundance, 2005) and Chop Shop (Cannes, 2007), both directed by Ramin Bahrani. She has also been an assistant editor on television commercials, and has edited promos for clients such as Bloomingdales, the New York Times Digital, and the FAO in Rome, Italy. Since 2003 she's been a freelance segment editor for the PBS program, In the Life. In 2005 she stepped in as the show's post production supervisor and staff editor, guiding it through the 2005-2006 season

Christina edited the experimental, single channel piece Describe Video by the artist Judy Radul. This project cast blind actors in the roles of sighted characters and plays on the camera's focus on sight as a principle means of relation. It was was included in an exhibition of Judy's work at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver in October 2007.

Her feature film editing credits include: Between Love and Goodbye directed by Casper Andreas. A Four Letter Word also directed by Andreas A Jersey Christmas directed by Eric Weber.Off Duty directed by Vijay Mathews.

Her son Huck was born in December 2007 and since then she has taken a hiatus from editing. She is available for selected short term projects. She is currently working on a feature film script called Beard Street.

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