Nina Leidersdorff
TFI Support
Tribeca All Access® 2005
About
Nina is a graduate of the Film and Media Science Department of the University of Copenhagen, and has recently completed the Producing MFA Program at the American Film Institute. She has an extensive background in the Danish Film and TV industry, working as a producer, production manager and line producer on commercials, music videos, TV series and documentaries. Her work with production house Easy Film resulted in various MCA Europe Awards for the series of commercials Senso Diva and the children’s documentary Around The World. She was also studio manager for Scandinavian video game production company Deadline Games, working on commercially successful titles such as Globetrotter and Mistaenkt.
As her thesis for AFI, Nina produced the short film THE LAST FULL MEASURE, directed by Alexandra Kerry and starring Reiko Aylesworth & Xander Berkeley (both from Fox’s 24) and Daniel Stern (Home Alone). The film screened, among many other festivals, at 2004 Cannes Film Festival and 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and received awards from Austin Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Long on Shorts Film Festival and the Angelus Awards. Nina is currently developing feature film projects with her company FLUID FILM, and has recently signed a first look deal with Danish production company Nordisk Film. Her first project, SOLSTICE, is scheduled to start production in Fall of 2005.
El Machito
EL MACHITO is a drama that follows Ray Marshall, an ex English soccer player that’s adjusting to his new life as a talent scout. Ray battles a divorce, a drinking problem, and is in a fight to save his job since his boss decided to send him to Peru in an impossible mission to draft Claudio Quezada, a hot soccer player. Ray’s outlook begins to change when he discovers a young player that calls himself “Machito” and who is about to be kicked off his team because of his recklessness, temper and attitude. But Machito’s passion for the game reminds Ray of somebody he used to know: himself.