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The Summer I Turned Pretty

Kristina Arjona (She/Her, They/Them) is proudly a SAG-AFTRA accredited and certified Intimacy Coordinator through Intimacy Professionals Association. They are also a certified Mental Health Coordinator through the Association of Mental Health Coordination and is the Director of Research and Resource Development at the Association of Mental Health Coordinators.

Kristina received her BFA in Acting and BA in Theatrical Design & Production from Elon University. Along with ongoing training in the quickly developing intimacy coordination and mental health coordinator fields, she is also Mental Health First Aid Certified and Psychological First Aid Certified.

Kristina has worked in the southeastern film industry for over 12 years on both sides of the lens, and uses their unique skills and training to increase effective communication and safety for everyone involved. They developed the Color Code Protocol, a communication technique and safety standards for working with sensitive material in film, adapted with the help of the sex-positive community, and has spoken about set safety strategies involving intimacy work at universities and panels including the Atlanta Film Festival, Women in Film, Out on Film Festival, Actor Empowerment Summit, and the Women in Production Summit.

Proudly queer and Latina, Kristina is particularly passionate about working with material involving queer stories, BIPOC characters, empowering younger individuals, and trauma-informed care in sexual violence-related scenes.

Her recent credits include Showtime’s George & Tammy (starring Jessica Chastain & Michael Shannon), Netflix’s XO, Kitty, Amazon Prime's The Summer I Turned Pretty, FOX's Welcome To Flatch, and One True Loves  (starring Simu Liu & Phillipa Soo).

See her full credits on IMDB.

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