Meet Christian Alan

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christian Alan.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Yeah, certainly, I’m California-born and raised and what has drawn me to the industry that I work in – entertainment – is really just the challenge of finding the best way to communicate my vision in the way of stories, to an audience. It’s like a lot of things where your supply has to meet the demand, except in this case, the supply is completely contingent on your imagination for better or for worse.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I think what I love about being a writer and producer is also what I hate about it. At least speaking for myself, sometimes what I want to write feels so tailored and therapeutic to my own life, it can be tedious to take a step back and hold myself to telling a story with greater relatability and appeal. So it’s like sometimes it is better to tell that story that’s so narrow because that can make it original, but you also run the risk that maybe no one can relate but you.

No man is an island, so it does help having a team of actors and fellow filmmakers that will read or even stimulate what I am writing to help me ground my ideas. There’s the saying “If you want to go fast then go alone, but if you want to go far then go together” and that is exactly what makes the road much smoother. Finding the right like-minded people that will only expand upon my ideas and never shut down my creativity entirely. And I like to think my most upcoming project, “An Unplanned Milestone” is a perfect case of that. Without my friends Emely Otsuka and Andrey Goulter, and then everyone else, this kind of art would not have been made.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Most of what I do is split between marketing and publicity and then also maintaining my creative muscles of writing and producing. So I sell myself as a writer and producer because those are the experiences that I’m most proud of.

I think in writing different projects, from student films to network television episodes, I really try to cultivate environments where we’re all in agreement that the story we’re telling is bigger than ourselves. And that’s a really important thing I TRY to live by – being a part of something bigger than myself. Because I think in an industry like this, it’s very easy to get lost and full of yourself. But when you live for altruism and helping the people around you, and genuinely mean it when you do, it can have a ripple effect, and that’s what the world at large needs now more than ever.

We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
This isn’t something that people wouldn’t know about me per say, but maybe people peripherally and also parasocially might not really internalize that I mean what I say and that if I express my appreciation, or my admiration, or my pride for them or whatever- I really mean it.

There isn’t a person that’s been one of my sets that I am not a fan of in one way or another. And when you’re a fan of someone, you want the best for them, and it’s really cool to see them level up and grow in their aspirations. People like Evelyn Wan, a reader-turned-actress who compels people in and out of the characters she plays because of how compassionate she is. Or people like Andrey Goulter, who are super professional and persevering. They’re all people that I look up to, try to look out for, and would continue working within a heartbeat.

Those two names I mentioned in specific, I am fortunate enough to have been part of one of our upcoming projects, a streaming series entitled “An Unplanned Milestone”.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itschristianalan/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianalan/

Image Credits
Christian Alan, Alejandro Martin, LFTA