Todd Albert Nims

Todd Albert Nims is a Saudi-born American Creative Director & Producer heavily involved in the Gulf region's cinema and entertainment development. Mr. Nims co-produced Born a King, a major feature shot in London and Saudi Arabia that broke box office records for the Gulf, featuring Ed Skrein, Hermione Corfield and Laurence Fox and budgeted at $20 million USD. He held the Film Producer position at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's state-of-the-art hub for inspiring creativity and global culture, Ithra, for six years where he established the Kingdom's first cinema and assisted in launching the first Saudi Film Days (saudifilmdays.com) program to provide funding and development to Saudi filmmakers while screening their films in Hollywood. He produced the feature film JOUD which screened at Cannes Film Festival and has been accepted into the Red Sea International Film Festival. Mr. Nims's previous accolades include, capturing a Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Media & TV Awards and two Golds at the New York Festivals' World's Best Awards for his short film series Children of the World. Additional film credits include: producing the Saudi Arabian portion of Just Like Us (2010), an official selection at the Tribeca International Film Festival; and Push Tunisia (2012) an award winning short on skateboard artivism shot 11 months after the Tunisian revolution. He first rose to prominence with his highly praised debut feature documentary Home: The Aramco Brats' Story (2007), distributed on MBC network. In theater, Mr. Nims directed and co-wrote the Gulf's first major immersive theater play, Bait Al Dahaleezi, a supernatural murder-mystery taking place within the old Jamjoom house, a UNESCO heritage site within Jeddah's Al Balad district containing over 100 rooms, in which audiences are transported back to 1919 and deemed suspects in the murder of Saleh Al Dahaleezi. The immersive theater ran during the inaugural Jeddah season to rave reviews. Mr. Nims is guest lecturer at KAUST University, where he delivers a yearly course to its PHD candidates entitled "Cinematic Science" helping scientist to produce films communicating their research in partnership with the Cinematic Science Company. He was a founder of C3 Films and participated in many of its shows such as Khambalah, La Yekthar, and Temsa7ly. Mr. Nims owns an entertainment company based in Riyadh with several scripts and projects in development and a media consultancy business based in the USA. Mr. Nims sits as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce's Committee for Cinema, Media and Entertainment.