Throwing it back to my last Cali adventure. Heading back this weekend for the @womenofcolorfilmmakers gala and a little salty sea air 🌊 Come join us for the big celebration in Long Beach! 📷 by @mouzammakkar 😜 . . . . . #tbt #losangeles #christinawren #actor #actress
Happiest of birthdays to you, darling! I’m so very grateful you were born. The world is a much better place with you in it. Me and the boys love you so much! And as Papa Sal would say, “When God made you, HE WAS SHOWIN’ OFF!!” ☺️ May this be your best year yet @demetriuswren ♥️
Found where I belong. #nerd
Found where I belong. #nerd
Any day on set feels like a good day 💙 . . . . . . #actor #actress #atlantaactor #atlantaactress #trailerselfie #christinawren
COME OUT LA! I treasure sitting on the board of @womenofcolorfilmmakers and our fourth anniversary gala is TOMORROW!!! Come out on November 19 for a wonderful evening of celebration and community! Details at womenofcolorfilmmakers.org and in my bio! #wocf #womenofcolorfilmmakers
I don’t get a lot of solo moments these days but last week I made a half hour pit stop at the beach on the way to the @womenofcolorfilmmakers gala and it filled my spirit. Time to just think and be 💙. Maybe you’ll enjoy pausing for a moment with the rhythm of the ocean’s waves (swipe ➡️) . . . . . #ocean #gratitude #calm #beach
I don’t get a lot of solo moments these days but last week I made a half hour pit stop at the beach on the way to the @womenofcolorfilmmakers gala and it filled my spirit. Time to just think and be 💙. Maybe you’ll enjoy pausing for a moment with the rhythm of the ocean’s waves (swipe ➡️) . . . . . #ocean #gratitude #calm #beach
I plan to donate to @wgfpa on the Day of Giving. Will you join me? Donate here on Nov. 29 → https://www.givebigpittsburgh.com/organizations/women-and-girls-foundation #WGFFightsForMe #GiveBigPittsburgh #DayOfGiving
#sagaftrastrong
#sagaftrastrong
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Throwing it back to the day I was transformed into a Who from Whoville on an adventure led by the one and only @langy. May your holiday season be filled with joy and playful shenanigans! . . . . . #holiday #holidaycostume #prosthetics #prostheticmakeup #who #whoville #actor #actress #whovillemakeup #gabriellangenbrunnerstylist #christinawren #actor
An amazing weekend celebrating @womenofcolorfilmmakers fourth anniversary! Major shout outs to the one and only @landi.maduro who has built this organization from the ground up! And thank you to the friends who came out to celebrate with us. @thefosterwilson @freshviolet and my ever supportive, fellow goofball @rachnakhatau – thanks for spending your evening with us! . . . #womenofcolorfilmmakers #gala #2022 #femalefilmmakers #fancy #celebrate
When I first joined the union, I was meeting actors a step ahead of me who – not being famous – had been able to buy homes, support families and live good lives off their craft. Things were in the midst of changing and no one knew how to process it. Contracts were shrinking. Residuals were shrinking. The option to negotiate at all was disappearing. I knew people who lost jobs simply because their reps tried one round of negotiations. I know huge stars who were given base rates or told to walk on huge projects. I have friends whose faces were all over billboards, promotional materials, red carpets, press tours for huge shows on major streaming platforms, then returned home to their rental apartment, financially anxious. When I graduated college, I didn’t want to be famous, I just wanted to be a “working actor.” Someone who could live, be it simply, off of my work, as I had seen many before me do. After years of striving and even having some successes, I learned that for the vast majority of us – even if we are working – it is no longer enough to support a life. You have to become supremely famous and/or get a side hustle. The model for making money off of media now comes from subscribers vs. ad dollars and yet the contracts we still use are from a model that hardly exists. Because as actors, part of our job has always been keeping up an illusion of stardom, it can be confusing to know there is much struggle behind the scenes. A family member found something online that said I was worth tens of millions of dollars 🤪. While that’d be nice, it couldn’t be farther from the truth. Despite the blessings and great opportunities I’ve had, I’ve only had a few years where I could live off of my acting work. The idea of residuals is that a product makes a bunch of money and all the people who collaborated on its successes share a piece of that pie. If the model is now that writers and actors (and a whole host of others) work in making wonderful shows and those shows are what drives viewers to subscribe, then subscribers fees is the pie that we should all be sharing in. And don’t steal our likeness for AI. C’mon now. #actor #sagaftrastrong #sagaftrastrike2023
I’m so enjoying my first fall in Atlanta. . . . . . . #fall #seasons #leaves #atlanta #actor #actress #christinawren #atlantaactor #atlantaactors #fallcolors
Episode 03 of Back to Your Ones, interviewing Landi Maduro, is now live! Listen in to hear about Landi’s journey from model to photographer to cinematographer and ultimately into becoming a director. We talk about what makes a good horror, film as a visual medium and about her organization (that is near and dear to my heart) @womenofcolorfilmmakers Link in bio! . . . . . . #landimaduro #backtoyourones #filmmaker #femalefilmmaker #womenofcolorfilmmakers #wocf #woc #podcast #director #demetriuswren #christinawren
Episode 03 of Back to Your Ones, interviewing Landi Maduro, is now live! Listen in to hear about Landi’s journey from model to photographer to cinematographer and ultimately into becoming a director. We talk about what makes a good horror, film as a visual medium and about her organization (that is near and dear to my heart) @womenofcolorfilmmakers Link in bio! . . . . . . #landimaduro #backtoyourones #filmmaker #femalefilmmaker #womenofcolorfilmmakers #wocf #woc #podcast #director #demetriuswren #christinawren
Our interview with Hollywood’s “script whisperer,” @onthepage’s Pilar Alessandra. I couldn’t be a bigger fan of Pilar and am so grateful she shared her insight with us on all throngs screenwriting and development. Hope you enjoy! And let us know if there are topics or questions you’d like us to discuss on the show! Now streaming anywhere you get your podcasts. Link in bio. . . . . . . #pilaralessandra #onthepage #backtoyourones #backtoyouronespodcast #podcast #screenwriting #pitching #filmmaking #scriptwhisperer #demetriuswren #christinawrenn
