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. His films have premiered at IFC Center, Palm Springs ShortFest, Frameline, Atlanta, 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 in 2025 with his film "Tomorrow."

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Christian is also a programmer at Sun Pass Film Festival in Miami and the founder of Midnight Movie Theater, a space dedicated to trash, underground, misunderstood, and rarely-screened films. 

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SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

• Tomorrow (TBD)

• Not Today (2025)

• Stardust (2025)

• Jimmy (2024)

• Death (2023)
• GANGBANG (2023)
• The Expanding Horizon (2022)

• Violence (2019)
• Boys of My Youth (2018)

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