Nada Djordjevich is a writer, filmmaker, and consultant.
CREATIVE WORKS
Nada Djordjevich has made two short films. Her animated film, California Pie played in seven festivals and was selected as “best animated film” at the Oregon Short Film Festival and the City Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. Her live action short, Eat Surf Love, won the audience award for “best local drama” at the 2024 San Francisco Short Film Festival. The film premiered at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in Oregon in October 2024, and was selected as a “film worth freezing for” by the Anchorage International Film Festival in December 2024. The film is scheduled for festival screenings throughout 2025.
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.
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 screenplays ranked highly in multiple competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, BlueCat, Chesterfield, Zoetrope, and many others
CONSULTING
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 still in place. She has raised almost $40 million to expand educational equity, address health disparities, and increase arts engagement.
MEDIA
The media page includes interviews and publications, such as this conversation with Rick Love at SIFF. and this October 2024 radio interview, conducted by Cat Smith of KSVY.org with Nada and actors Tyler Ritter and Molly Wood.
Trailer for the award-winning film California Pie, directed by Nada Djordjevich.
