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Ana Turbides for Bold. Brilliant. Unstoppable.
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Ana Christina Turbides: Speaker: Ana Turbides, Screenwriter/Aspiring Film DirectorAna Turbides: it's not easy. Apply yourself, be determined, be ambitious, never give up. Keep going. Even if it gets hard, just keep going, be motivated, be driven.What does being an Influential Woman mean to you?Ana Turbides: Being an influential woman means a lot to me. It means that I'm making a difference in my own way. It means that I am giving. Some kind of a leadership. I'm, I'm going after my dreams and showing others how to go after theirs as well, that I am pursuing, pursuing everything I work hard at and giving others that same example that I don't stop fighting. And that I'm always trying to make better of myself and also give others an example. I'm trying to be that role model, show other women they can definitely pursue whatever they want to do, be a leadership in their own field. Um, and They can pursue whatever they want and they can be a role model themselves for Other women as well, and they can um they can shine bright. So it means a lot to be an influential woman. It's definitely a huge honor and I thank influential women for including me in that honor.What's one piece of advice you would give to younger women chasing their dreams?Ana Turbides: One piece of advice I would give to younger women chasing their dreams, do not give up. I know it's it's again, cliche. I said it in my influential woman interview that He just hearing that it's cliche, but it's true. It definitely does. You know, you'll find that it resonates a lot throughout your life. It has in mind. Um, especially being a female screenwriter, um, wanting to be a director in the field with a lot of men in the, you know, in the field, it's not easy, um. You just want to apply yourself. I want to say to the younger women pursuing their dreams, you have to apply yourself because it's not easy. Apply yourself, be determined, be ambitious, never give up. Keep going. Even if it gets hard, just keep going, be motivated, be driven. I think those are all the things that I've I've done in my life to keep me going at it and keep me um at the level where I am right now, keep me strong, keep me levelheaded. Um, it is very easy to give up, so you want to remind yourself. That even if it gets hard, even if it breaks you, you just gotta keep going. And you'll be stronger.
Her Story
About Ana
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.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Ana
01What do you attribute your success to?
Being really driven, determined and ambitious.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
To Keep going, keep going, never give up.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Work harder, work harder, and try to be the person who stands out most in the room. Because I've always been that person who's not only determined and driven, but also that person who could try to keep creating the most beautiful thing in the most beautiful way.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
A challenge for anyone trying to get their film off the ground, is just really trying to get financing forward, and I think that's been the main challenge. The opportunity is that as long as you have the imagination, you can do whatever… whatever you want, how you can grow yourself in however way you want to grow yourself
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I think holding the people you love close to you really close, always keeping in touch, making time for people as much as you can. The people that matter most, you try to make time and space for those you love.
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