ABOUT NINA

Nina is an award-winning film and television director from Melbourne, Australia. She is known for her passion for telling intimate and suspenseful stories from the female perspective.

Nina’s VCA graduating short film ‘WOOF!’ premiered at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in 2016 where she won the award for ‘Best Editing in an Australian Short Film’. Her second short film ‘MWAH’ premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival in 2017. Both films have screened at many festivals around the world including Palm Springs International Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, Perth Revelation Film Festival and Byron Bay International Film Festival where Nina won ‘Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year.’

In 2019, Nina had her television directing debut on the Netflix children’s series ‘THE INBESTIGATORS’ and then went on to direct two episodes of the anthology series ‘SUMMER LOVE’ also for Gristmill and ABC TV.

In 2022, Netflix appointed Nina as the director’s attachment to Jocelyn Moorhouse on the TV series ’BOYS SWALLOWS UNIVERSE’. She then kicked off 2023 directing her first network television drama ’PAPER DOLLS’ for Paramount + and Network 10. This same year Nina went on to direct the final episodes of the children’s coming of age series ’PLANET LULIN’ for the ABC.

In 2024 Nina completed her third short drama film ‘BUBBA’, which was supported by the Filmmaker Fund from Rooftop Films in New York and was runner up in the 2022 Monte Miller Australian Writer’s Guild awards for Australia’s best unproduced scripts. She also directed on the third season of the Emmy award winning Netflix series HEARTBREAK HIGH.

Nina is represented by Edwina Stuart at HLA Management.