Trina Calderón comes from a family of Los Angeles educators. She grew up obsessed with art, music, and film and tackled technology young shooting photography and making audio and video mixtapes as a child.

Calderón studied TV and film production at California State University Northridge and worked in the art galleries learning curation and exhibition. Fresh out of school, she co-wrote the feature film Down For Life which premiered on the opening night film at Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. She cut her teeth learning production in reality/doc TV for Authentic Entertainment and Pie Town Productions.

With G4TV/NBCUniversal network, she helped produce X-Play and Web Soup, trailblazing live event TV shows at E3 and San Diego Comic Con and pioneering social media content on television. Calderón was the co-executive producer of The Nerdist TV show for Comcast Studios and BBCAmerica. She’s written the Alma Awards for MSNBC and is currently the annual Gracie Gala Awards screenwriter for the Alliance for Women in Media. Working with UnidosUS, the largest Latinx civil rights organization in the country, she’s a production consultant and writer for the annual Capital Awards and their national conference.

A published journalist and author, Calderón has worked with many visual artists making documentaries, and writing articles, essays, books, and museum and gallery exhibits. She wrote the ground-breaking exhibit, Pump Me Up: DC Subcultures of the 1980’s, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the first comprehensive look at the real frenzy of culture inside the capital. Cementing the legacy of graffiti art, she helped write and produce WALL WRITERS: Graffiti in its Innocence, a massive book and documentary feature film about the American art innovators. For the 35th anniversary of D.C.’s infamous 9:30 Club, she co-wrote the large history book, 9:30: A Time and a Place. She’s a contributing writer for Juxtapoz Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Believer. At LACMA, she helps produce public programs, music, and film events. With the Duardo family foundation, she’s currently in production on To Print and Die in L.A., an art documentary about Los Angeles printmaking legend, the “Warhol of the West,” Richard Duardo.

Passionate about social justice, genre films, and satire, she likes creating stories that inspire people to think about their life. Calderón is a Film Independent Project: Involve Screenwriting fellow and member of the WGA West. She’s repped by Noah Jones at FRWD MGMT.