Kristine Kreska

Kristine has a global perspective on the art of storytelling as a dual citizen of Poland and the United States. Her corporate background includes Bank of The West and Winstar Home Video. She was an Assistant Vice President of Human Resources during the mergers of Sanwa, United California Bank, United Financial Japan, BNP Paribas, and Bank of The West. Kris became the Vice President of an award-winning entertainment marketing company in 2004, and transitioned into the buying-and-selling of feature films as an International Sales Agent in 2005.

Since 2019, she's judged 18 categories for the Emmys, in the California, New York, and Texas chapters. Kris has been a script reader for the Cinequest International Film Festival since 2021, and a juror for feature film dramas and comedies. She has not only developed characters as an award-winning SFX makeup artist, but also wrote a screenplay, Visceral, which won the prestigious Catalina Film Festival in 2022, Best of Fest.