Ana Christina Turbides

I was born and raised in Boston, MA. Growing up, I always had a very nurtured imagination, but it was when I was about 12 or 13 years old when things changed for me creatively. I was in middle school and wrote something really good for a class that I had, and showed it to a teacher. She was impressed, really blown away, and said it was really good. "You should write a book!" I still remember her words to this day. I did. That day, when I came home, I started thinking about what I should write about. It came to me: Superheroes! I grew up watching shows with characters who had special powers and superhero movies. I began to write a book that I never published; instead, turned it into a film script after my mother told me, "You have a very vivid imagination, you have an eye for creativity, you should make it into a movie." It seems words of encouragement that open doors for you always stay with you. So after adapting it, I've spent all these years shaping it, perfecting and polishing it. Putting it through more than one re-write, tossing it and starting over, until it got to the point of where it is now, andI'm genuinely happy with how it's turned out. Something I've always been proud of, it's very near and dear to me. For years, I worked at Walgreens, starting as a Customer Service associate, working my way up to Designated hitter (which is working front store while learning and working all things pharmacy), then pharmacy technician to management, to Inventory specialist and other jobs in between, including, Davios, Starbucks, Dennys, and now Caffe Nero as a Manager and Barista but my heart and Soul has always been Film and I now have four fully written film scripts.

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