Cristina Bishai is an Emmy-nominated producer and director with more than two decades of experience in documentary and non-fiction television. Her co-directorial debut, The Campaign: Disinformation in a Time of War, which she also executive produced, examines the influence of propaganda and information warfare in modern conflict.
Cristina began her journalism career at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where at 18 she co-led the school’s first broadcast news program, Banana Slug News. She later earned her Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, where she worked on the award-winning news magazine Impact and won a 2010 College Emmy in News Magazine.
Since then, Cristina has worked across investigative journalism, documentary, and reality programming. She served as a producer and Co-Executive Producer on three seasons of CNN’s Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies, a series examining espionage, terrorism, and intelligence operations involving the NSA, FBI, and CIA. She was also Co-Executive Producer on Season 1 of the Netflix series Worst Roommate Ever, which reached number 1 on the platform’s global Top 10.
She later co-executive produced CNN’s 4-part documentary series Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal, which followed John Dean’s personal account of the Watergate scandal while exploring its modern parallels in political corruption. The film received a 2023 News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Documentary.
Her additional credits include projects for Apple TV+, A&E, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen, USA, and E!.
Cristina lives in Southern California with her husband, their two daughters, a cat, and an unusually charismatic pet jumping spider.
