January 04, 2014 in Recently Added, Photography
BIOGRAPHY:
Artist and filmmaker Christina Marie Smith is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born to John and Regina in June of 1982. She is the second of four girls. Smith’s early education includes a certificate in Business & Marketing, which she achieved at Monroe County Technical Institute in Bartonsville, PA in 2001 along with her high school diploma from Pocono Mountain High School in Swiftwater, PA. After schooling in Bartsonsville and Swiftwater, Christina moved west to California earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) with an emphasis in cinematography from the Academy of Art University in 2006. She went on to earn a Master' of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography in 2012.
Over the years, Smith has recorded weddings, parties, public events and numerous music videos. Some of the bands she filmed include: Maypole "Tiamaught and The Astronaut", Roadside Memorial "Devil’s Face" and "Consume". Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows in San Francisco. She has shown experimental films in Harlem, New York and San Francisco, California. She is currently involved in a feature film project entitled, Champions of Charm, and as producer and director of the film, Opera Divina. Both films are scheduled for completion by spring of 2017. Her short horror film, Amiable Amber, based on her original screenplay was completed in 2004 and is currently being re-made into a feature film.
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CHRISTINA MARIE SMITH
Smith will tell you it has been a long intense journey. Many life experiences have enlightened her and have drawn her closer to her inner self. She has gravitated to drawing and painting from a young age which later progressed into film and cameras. She has always had a fascination with photography and art and desired to learn all the skills she needed to be self-supportive doing the art and film she so loved. It was at the Academy of Art University where Christina pursued motion pictures and television with an emphasis in directing. She later switched to cinematography. Christina would go on to pursue her love for photography in graduate school.Christina Marie Smith now resides and works in the San Francisco Bay area.