Cristina Ibarra is an American documentary filmmaker who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Cristina Ibarra was the first born kid of a middle class immigrant family from Mexico.
She grew up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Later she found out herself interested in media courses and Chicana history courses so that she finally decided to study filmmaking, and graduated in 1997 with Bachelor of Art degree in Radio-Television-Film[5] During her college life, she was also in Chicano/Latino film Forum MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A.).
As director and producer she has had experienced as working with both men and women, while filming projects.