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The Mole
Role: Director, Producer
Visualization of a poem by Steffan Triplett, created for the 2018 Visible Poetry Project.

Official Selection: ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin; New York City Poetry Film Festival; YoFiFest; IndieWorks.
Directed by
Nina Gielen

Poem by
Steffan Triplett

Cast:
Boy - Khalil Jai Fason
Narrator - Daryl Lathon
Kids - Isabella Buss, Isabel Clements, Elana Glova, Julia Olshanska, Zach Overholser, Kenyon Phillips, Titus Phillips, Benji Siegel
Dog - Pumpkin

Produced by
Benjamin Stillerman, Nina Gielen, Aditi Natasha Kini
Director of Photography
Camilla Foschi

Editor
Azmi Mert Erdem

Casting Director
Simone Norman

Sound Designer
Dave Salierno

Colorist
Kevin Barber

Music by
A Great White Bird

Arts and Crafts
Role: Writer, Director, Producer
Ten-year-old Misha desperately wants his dead mother to return to him.

Awards: Silver Whiskers best-of-fest, IndieWorks Halloween 2016; nominated for Best Sick Chick Flick, Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival; nominated for Best Director of a Narrative Short, Queens World Film Festival; nominated for Best Writer/Director, IndieWorks Best of Fest showcase.
Official Selection: Loyola - NOLA Feminist Film Fest; Village of Brewster Film Festival; DAMN! Film Series; YoFiFest; Lake Champlain International Film Festival.

Cast:
Adam Keane as Misha
Dylan Chalfy as Father
Morgan Priester as Patrick
Liz Parker as Mother

Written and Directed by
Nina Gielen

Produced by
Azmi Mert Erdem
Nina Gielen

Director of Photography
Amy Obarski

Editors
Esmé von Hoffman
Azmi Mert Erdem
Production Designer
Elle Kunnos de Voss

Music by
Harlan Muir

Casting Director
Rachel Reiss CSA

Assistant Director
Tullia Zanfini

Production Manager
Jennifer Suter

Puppet Design and Creation
Charlie Kanev


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Arts and Crafts (2016) on IMDb

Ask Alice
Role: Director, Producer
When a woman must convince her change-resistant 88-year-old aunt to move, all of her efforts fail until she receives help from an unexpected source.

Official Selection: JCC film series; NYWIFT Member Screening Series; New York Urban Film Festival (NUFF).
Ask Alice still
Cast:
Hope Arthur as Boots
Wendy Sax as Anne

Directed by
Nina Gielen

Written by
Wendy Sax

Produced by
Wendy Sax, Nina Gielen

Executive Producers
Rick and Amanda Sax
 
Co-Executive Producers
Eileen Michaels, Anthony DePalma, Sheila C. Pompan,
The Venetis Family, Winalee Zeeb


Director of Photography
Alex Sablow

Editor
Tim Sternberg

Art Director
Memo

Associate Producer
Sam Garland

Sound Designer / Sound Mixer
Zachary Bishop

Colorist
Anastasia Cipolla

End of Season
Role: Writer, Director, Producer
During an outing at the beach, a mother attempts to jolt her depressed daughter out of her post-breakup funk by any means necessary.

Official Selection: Electric Lantern Festival, UK; Cinewest Women Media Arts and Film Festival, Australia; Calabrisella Films presents Directed By Women at the Calandra Institute; NYWIFT Fall Shorts Festival.
Written and Directed by
Nina Gielen

Starring:
Christianna Nelson as Mimi
Victoria Vance as Nora

Produced by
Sharifa Williams, Nina Gielen

Director of Photography
Dan McBride

Editor
Joe Chow

Assistant Director
Sharifa Williams
Associate Producers
Janine Sadowski, Laura Fielder

Music by
Dorian Douma

Also Featuring:
Swain McCaughrin
Rocco George

Production Sound Mixer
Joe Pfeil

Sound Editor
Felipe Silvestre

Art Director
Swain McCaughrin
End of Season (2013) on IMDb

Sunny Acres Farms
Role: Writer, Producer

Satirical factory-farming themed PSA, produced on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Directed by
Lloyd Kaufman

Written and Produced by
Nina Gielen

Director of Photography
Michael Hauer

Editor
Travis Campbell

Casting Director
Jamie Greco

First AD
Jamie Greco

Production Manager
Allison Jones
Renzo Adler

Assistant Camera
Emilie Jackson
Special Effects
Matthew Martino
Anthony DiFolco

Makeup
Dori Jay
Peter Stevens

Hair
Suzi Pang

Costumes
Rocco George
John Michael Holden

Production Assistants
Mike Axelrod
Kyle Corwin
John Michael Holden
Chelsea Holland
Molly Hulnick
Chase Marotz
Jennifer Valdes
Cast:  Caleb Allen, Zac Amico, Julie Bilotta, Peter Bloch, Meg Carriero, Scott Churchson, Matthew Cohn, Kate Delaney, Danielle DeSantis, Rocco George, Chantal Grosvenor, John Mark Hawley, Peter Hodgins, Chelsea Holland, Reginald Hudlin, Kevin King, Madeline Lupi, Matthew Martino, Mariann Molski, Alexander Morgan, Emma J. Purvey, Peter Stevens, Daisy Taveras, Chris Warden
Sunny Acres Farms (2012) on IMDb

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