{"id":3362,"date":"2026-08-13T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/?page_id=3362"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:50:29","slug":"christian-meola","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/christian-meola\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Meola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 1rem\">\n<div style=\"float: right;margin: 0px 20px 20px 20px;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profile-pic__circle alignnone wp-image-1673 size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Meola_150px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Christian Meola<\/strong><br \/>\nAdjunct Professor<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:christian.meola@austincc.edu\">christian.meola@austincc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN MEOLA<\/strong> is a filmmaker in Austin, Texas. He won Best Narrative Film at the Fencesitter Film Festival for \u201cStardust\u201d in 2025 and the &#8220;You&#8217;re Special&#8221; award at the Bizarroland Film Festival in 2020. He was a finalist for the 2025 Pandora Short Film Grant and the 2025 New Voices Filmmaker Grant with his short film &#8220;Tomorrow.&#8221; His recent films focus on unusual, confusing, and emotionally charged encounters between men and the impact of male interpersonal dynamics on sexuality and identity. They have screened at IFC Center, Palm Springs ShortFest, Frameline, Flickers RIIFF, and film festivals worldwide. His upcoming anthology feature, \u201cOther Days,\u201d will premiere in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Meola Adjunct Professor christian.meola@austincc.edu CHRISTIAN MEOLA is a filmmaker in Austin, Texas. He won Best Narrative Film at the Fencesitter Film Festival for \u201cStardust\u201d in 2025 and the &#8220;You&#8217;re Special&#8221; award at the Bizarroland Film Festival in 2020. He was a finalist for the 2025 Pandora Short Film Grant and the 2025 New Voices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"sidekick":"","layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/rtf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}