Nina Martinek

Nina Martinek is an Australian writer and director whose short films have screened at international festivals including Sundance, LA Shorts, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Edinburgh, Vienna, the Toronto Women’s Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Art Museum. An alumna of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program, she has worked extensively as a documentary filmmaker in Africa for UNICEF, and as a video producer and journalist for Reuters and The New York Times.

NIna's debut narrative feature, Happy Birthday Charlie, is now streaming. She has written multiple screenplays for international productions including "Maxine", is currently editing a short film Happiness Is and a longitudinal documentary titled What We Dream.

Format: Scripted Features, Unscripted Shorts

Genre: Noir, Coming of Age, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Women

Location: New York, United States