Christina DiPasquale is a storyteller whose work blends archival revelation and community collaboration to reclaim histories long marginalized. Through her companies, Balestra Media and DIY Television, she advances participatory media practices rooted in collective memory and movement-building. She has produced JIM CROW JUVENILE JUSTICE and the DEMAND MORE series, and led social impact and publicity campaigns for DIRTY WARS and XYCHELSEA. Her archival research has been recognized by the Library of Congress and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, where it has helped surface overlooked collections and reconnect creators with their work. DiPasquale is currently working on BARRIO TELEVISION, her first feature documentary, which centers on the creators of the first Latino and bilingual series on US television. The film has received institutional support from Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, the Independence Public Media Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation. She was selected as a Latino Media Market Fellow by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and as an Early Production Lab scholarship recipient by UnionDocs. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Burn Independent Video Archive.

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ABOUT Barrio Television

Barrio Television reveals how Puerto Rican activists fearlessly disrupted public television in the 1970s to launch Realidades, the first bilingual Latino series in U.S. history. With original creators and never-before-seen materials, the film revives their unfinished fight for media power, a struggle that remains as urgent today as ever.

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Film

Barrio Television

Program Affiliation

Firelight Fund

Cohort Year

2025

Website

balestramedia.com

Instagram

@christina.dipasquale