We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Christina Bowden. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Christina below.
Hi Christina, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?
I have worked on several different projects. My most meaningful project has been working as a location manager on “The Other Zoe”. I received this job opportunity after finishing a commercial project. I received a call from a colleges informing me about a opportunity out of state. During this time I lost my mother and this was a challenging time for me. I spoke with the producer and was hired on the spot. The following Monday morning I was headed to North Carolina for a location manager job in a state I knew nothing about . When I arrived I was able to break down the script, hired my team and find the locations that were needed in a short period of time. While working on this project I learned a lot about the city of Charlette and its surrounding areas. One optical I was faced with was filming during Christmas time, getting multiple city officials to hold off on Christmas decorating in the downtown areas until we finished filming. I was completely out of my element and felt like I was starting over from scratch. Working on this project showed me that I can over come any optical no matter were I am as long as I have God all things are possible.
Christina, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
My name is Christina Bowden-Price, I am a Location Manager in the state of Georgia. I’ve worked in the film and television industry since 2016 with networks such as BET, Lifetime, Hallmark, Amazon Prime, Bounce TV, etc. I stared as an intern trying to get my foot in the door, on set half of the day and Door Dashing the other half of the day. I did this for about 6 months when God opened the door for me to get hired as an official location assistant and I never looked back. It started off rough but I worked really hard and fought my way to Locations Manager. In becoming a locations manager you learn that all the responsibility is on you. I also learned that your team is a very important part of having a successful project or losing your job. There are many problem that can occur during the process of filming. Such as filming around events that have already been scheduled, neighbors who don’t like filming in their neighborhood, trying to block off a busy street and the yard man cutting down trees while filming. But through it all I am proud to be apart of the film industry and what it has to offer. Our state is so diverse in looks and people that it is truly an amazing place for filming.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
My ultimate goal is to bring Godly content into the film industry. I believe there are so many biblical stories that has not been told. Myself and my husband would like to bring Godly content in the mix.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
One of the lessons I had to unlearn was thinking that every other department understood what I understood. I learned that overly communicating is the best practice. Because our department services almost every department on set, it’s easy for miscommunication to take place especially when everyone has to go through the Locations Department for their location needs.
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