Multiplatform Producer/ Director / Creative Director
Currently Nina is collaborating with fellow producer and social issue filmmaker Liz Marshall on the cross media documentary entitled “The Ghosts In Our Machine”, commissioned by documentary, which will be in production throughout 2012. Prior to that, Nina worked as a Project Manager and designer for DOC (Documentary Association of Canada) producing the DOCspace website.
Nina is also the CEO of Hop To It Productions. In 2010 with Hop to It partner Susan Nation, Nina directed, co produced and co wrote a documentary called “Suck It Up Princess” for OMNI Television. The film explores the courageous life of a young 21 year old woman, Renee Rodrigues, who suffers from CMD (Congenital Muscular Dystrophy). Nina, fellow producer Susie Nation and Beevision Partner/Editor Paul Hart first met Renee at a charity event in 2003 and were drawn to her spunk and tough attitude.
Also with Hop To it, in 2009/10 Nina co produced and creative directed 2 seasons of the internationally distributed “Pop It!” dance-along kids series and web site. In 2009 “Pop It!” was nominated for a Gemini award for Best Cross Platform Production and was nominated for 2 ACT Awards including Best Cross Platform Production and Best Interstitial.
In 2004-5 with the Beevision team, Nina produced, directed and wrote “The Idealist – James Beveridge, Film Guru”, shot throughout India, the USA and Canada. The film explores the life of her prolific father – a documentary film pioneer and co founder of the National Film Board of Canada.
Other Hop to It projects include co producing and creative directing an interactive web series and web site pilot called “Cupids Café”; the “Hip Hop in the T-Dot” dance series and website and the “Big Grin’s House Party” web prototype. In January 2007, Nina and Susie’s multi-platform mash-up game “Create A Date” became the Winner of Round One in The Great Canadian Video Game Competition. In 2007 the mash-up game was re-fashioned as “Cupid’s Café” and the project won Nina and Susie a scholarship to the Banff Interactive Project Lab, a pitch slot at the Vancouver Fusion Forum and an ipitch slot at the Banff TV Festival.
In 2004 Nina was a recipient of a Hot Docs Mentorship Award and in 2003 she produced an award winning 12-minute High Definition film for Olympic Spirit Toronto entitled “The Calling”.
In 1993 Nina founded Beevision. Highlights for the company include providing the broadcast design, animation and on air promotions for the Toronto Raptors Basketball Club. In 2001, Nina produced and designed, and partner Paul Hart edited the large scale multimedia experiences for Harbourfront’s prestigious “Festival of Creative Genius”, an event that honoured in person thirteen of the world’s greatest living creative geniuses, including Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Bernard Bertolucci, Frank Gehry, Harold Pinter, Steven Sondheim, Quincy Jones etc. In 1998 on behalf of Beevision, Nina received a special Gemini Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement for their work on the development of the Puppetworks digital motion-capture system.
Prior to forming Beevision, Nina was contracted in 1992 by CTV to be the Graphics Director for their coverage of the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. Her career began in 1981 when she was hired by Rogers Cablesystems to create a graphics department to service their new pay television system. From there she became the Designer for CBC’s ‘Project IRIS’ teletext field trial; launched the on air look and graphics department for TSN in 1984; worked as an Animator and then Creative Director for Greenlight Animation and then the Image Group Canada/Soho Post. She was a founding director of Inter/Access in 1982 – the first non profit digital artist’s organization in Canada.
Nina is a founding member of the docSHIFT advisory committee. She has attended MIPCOM, Kidscreen, Realscreen, the Banff Television Festival, GDC, ICE, Hot Docs, SIGGRAPH, BDC, and other industry programs. She has an Honours BA in English and Philosophy from Glendon College and a Diploma in Fine Arts from MSU University in Baroda, India. Nina was born in Mumbai, India and grew up in India, Canada and the USA.
