RECENT MEDIA - 2019 - 2024

In October 2024, Cat Smith of KSVY.org talked to filmmaker Nada Djordjevich and actors Tyler Ritter and Molly Wood about the award-winning short film, Eat Surf Love. The film won “best local drama” at the San Francisco Short Film Festival. Listen to excerpts here.

In May 2023, Zeami Eccles-Irwin, Assistant Director of Film Festival Circuit, interviewed Nada Djordjevich about California Pie, the winner of the Best Animated Film at the Oregon Short Film Festival.

Nada Djordjevich was interviewed on Sonoma TV by Rick Love, after the premiere of her short film, California Pie, at the Sonoma International Film Festival, in March 2023.

Nada Djordjevich writes about the endurance sport of filmmaking and spotlights producers and directors who changed the landscape of filmmaking, Women in Film. (WIFSFBA, February 2022).

Nada Djordjevich writes about the making and reception of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Amy Heckerling’s first feature film, (WIFSFBA, August 2020).

In “Casting Call: A Female Leader in a Feature Film Without Super Powers” Nada Djordjevich analyzes the lack of feature films set in the contemporary world, with a female leader as protagonist (WIFSFBA, August 2020).

Nada Djordjevich has worked with documentary filmmakers to help nonprofits tell their story. In this January 2020 project, she worked with Webby award winning director Jessica Jones and Mae Shore Productions to tell the story of the Union City Family Center (UCFC). In less than four minutes they describe what they do and why they’ve had such a profound impact on their community.

In this essay from September 2019, “Empowering Educators and Students: STEAM as a Catalyst for Agency, Access, and Joy,” Nada Djordjevich and Michelle Drake describe the power of arts and environmental education, highlighting a program that increased STEAM education for over 4000 youth. Nada wrote the grant for this program.