Nadia Litz

Nadia Litz is an actress and filmmaker who is a Canadian and British citizen. Nadia expressed her desire to be in film after she watched David Lynch's Elephant Man with her Dad when she was eight. A creative child, Nadia spent her childhood, dancing, writing and watching films. After graduating early from high school, she attended York University Theatre program but then paused her degree when she was cast in director Jeremy Podeswa's feature The Five Senses, where she played a teenager experimenting with gender and sexuality identity. That film premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight. Soon after, she starred as Sam Shepard's daughter - for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Canada Screen Awards, in Podeswa's follow-up After The Harvest. Nadia continued to act and get her degree, but it was while being represented Propaganda Films where she became more interested in filmmaking than in acting because of the highly auteur-driven environment... "I would visit my manager's office and directors like Spike Jonze and David Fincher would be hanging out in the lobby where there was a small skateboard ramp.... Sofia Coppola was married to Spike Jonze and those people looked like they were having more fun, creatively, than the actors... After getting her film degree in film at York University, Nadia was accepted to the Berlin Talent Lab where her mentors included Tilda Swinton and Wim Wenders. She was accepted to the post-secondary school Canadian Film Center as a Director-In-Residence and there made her first short film How To Rid Your Lover Of A Negative Emotion Caused By You! with producer Daniel Bekerman/Scythia (The Witch, Falling) That short played over 25 film festivals internationally, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and winning Best Short at Austin's Fantastic Fest. It was then selected for the Wholphin anthology, alongside works by Jay Duplass and Sean Durkin and is available on MUBI. After that film, she was selected to be in the TIFF Talent Lab. Her feature The People Garden (Scythia Films) was hot in Canada and Japan and stars Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, Francois Arnaud, Jai Tatsuto West and James Le Gros. It won the audience award at TIFF Screenwriting LAB and later premiered at BAFICI. It was released by Pacific Northwest Pictures (Canada)/Filmbuff (US)/Orion Pictures(World). In 2021 she began filming David Cornenberg's Crimes of the Future in Greece. Her next feature as a filmmaker - The Story of Polly Childs As Told By Her Enemies - begins filming in 2022.