Cristina Costantini

Cristina Costantini is an Emmy Award-winning director and partner at Muck Media. Her first film, Science Fair (Mountainfilm 2018), co-directed with Darren Foster, explored the competitive world of high school science fairs and was later adapted into a documentary series for National Geographic. Both the film and the series won Emmys. Costantini and Foster also co-directed Awakening: After Parkland (Mountainfilm 2019), and Costantini is the co-director of The Originals (Mountainfilm 2022). She went on to premiere her second film, Mucho Mucho Amor, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix. In 2025, Costantini directed Mañana Fue Muy Bonito, a documentary about Colombian singer Karol G, also acquired by Netflix. That same year, she directed SALLY(Mountainfilm 2025), a documentary about pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, which premiered at Sundance and won the Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize. Her latest film, La Tierra del Valor (The Home of the Brave) (Mountainfilm 2026), premiered at Sundance in January 2026.