Christa Geno is a producer/partner with City Gates Productions, LLC that she co-founded to make quality faith based films. City Gates, currently in pre-production for their debut release, is the next level progression in her eight year run in the film industry. Christa started her acting career as a crime victim in the dramatic short, "Six & Eleven." The screenwriter/director created the role for Christa based on her emotional range and depth during a scene she performed in a film audition workshop.
Christa grabbed onto her next adventure for a featured day-player role in the dramatic short, "Colorblind," and for the chance to go behind-the-scenes and the camera as part of the production team. Casting followed in a local cable commercial and as a journalist in the Universal Pictures release, "State of Play."
In spring 2008, Christa volunteered her choreographer/stage director experience to Ad Fontes Academy, a private Northern Virginia high school for their production of, "Joseph and the Multicolored Dream Coat" The success of the production led administrators to offer Christa a position teaching drama, which she currently holds. Her ten years of musical stage work with elementary children combined with her three years of experience as a storyteller for a kid's church program were the perfect culmination of life, love, and talent for this investment in teens.
As a lawyer's wife and mother of three, Christa is constantly on the go. She's the marketing director for her husband's law firm, an Internet marketing entrepreneur and a part-time fitness instructor for body sculpt, kick boxing and cycling. In late 2007 her athletic abilities paid off when she was cast in the feature film, "Wait Your Turn," as a Fitness/Cycling Instructor. To keep her high-energy multi-tasking pace, she's also CPR certified.
Drawing on her experiences in life, marriage, motherhood, media, marketing, voice-over, producing, directing, athletics and actor master classes or as a former buyer for women's shoes at Nordstrom, Christa focuses all her diverse areas of expertise on her family and into her films. In winter 2008, her son shared in Christa's passion for film when they teamed up to earn his scouting merit badge, created by Steven Spielberg, in Cinematography. Christa's not one to merely pass the torch. She wants to make it burn brighter and make movies in the process.