Nada Djordjevich is a writer, filmmaker, and consultant.
CREATIVE WORKS
Nada Djordjevich just completed her first live-action film, a romantic comedy short, set in San Francisco, called Eat Surf Love. Her narrative debut, California Pie, won Best Animated Film at both the Oregon Short Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and the City Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. As a writer, Nada received scholarships to attend the Community of Writers in California, Vermont Studio Center, and the Southampton Writers Conference. She conducted readings at the San Francisco Litquake Literary Festival and the KGB Bar in New York, and co-founded the acclaimed literary journal On the Page. Her feature and short screenplays ranked in competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, BlueCat, Chesterfield, Zoetrope, and many others.
BIO
A graduate of Harvard and UC Berkeley, Nada Djordjevich taught writing at City College of San Francisco and other institutions, and attended the UCLA Screenwriting Program. In 2019, she founded a social impact consulting firm that builds strategic partnerships. Nada Djordjevich has produced multiple public service announcements for nonprofits. She conducted outreach to create a community climate action plan for rural communities in the Bay Area. She has raised almost $40 million to expand educational equity, address health disparities, and increase arts engagement.
Visit the media page for recent interviews and publications, including this interview conducted by Rick Love at the Sonoma International Film Festival, and this 2020 essay on the lack of feature films about a contemporary women leader.
Trailer for the award-winning film California Pie, directed by Nada Djordjevich.
