COMING SOON
Our Story
Misfit Films is an independent, Montreal-based production company focused on the development and production of both English and French female-driven genre films and TV series. Misfit Films works primarily with female creative talent both in front of and behind the camera. The company opened its doors in 2022 and its projects are funded by Telefilm Canada, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), the Harold Greenberg Fund, Bell Media’s Crave, the Canadian Film Centre, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Owned by Christina Saliba, a development executive and producer with over seven years of experience, and a recent alum of the Norman Jewison’s Film Program Producers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.
Christina Saliba
Producer
Christina Saliba started off her career as a wildlife biologist working with marmots, prairie dogs, and rehabilitating seal pups. She then fell into the world of film and started writing pitches for a documentary film production company looking to venture into wildlife docs; one of her ideas became a five-part mini-series on TV5 called “Aging in the Wild”, “Vieillir dans la nature.”
She worked her way up the ladder as a production coordinator on shorts, features, and commercials. In 2017, she joined Goldrush Entertainment as a development executive, discovering new intellectual property, creating pitch materials, and providing support in pre- to post-production. Through Goldrush Entertainment she was an Associate Producer on A Score to Settle (Nicolas Cage), Most Wanted (Josh Hartnett), and A Place of Bones (Heather Graham).
In 2021, Saliba graduated from the Norman Jewison’s Film Program Producers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and won the Whistler Film Festival’s Power Pitch Competition for her psychological horror film, White Noise. In 2022, she also graduated from the Whistler Film Festival’s Producers’ Lab, the Women in Film and TV - Vancouver’s Genre Lab, and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s Horror Development Lab. She’s been a recipient of funding from the art councils, the Harold Greenberg Fund’s shorts-to-features program, SODEC, the Canadian Film Centre, and Telefilm Canada.
She is now venturing into producing more feminist and queer genre films and series for the silver screen.
