Biography

Nadia Litz is an award-winning Canadian/British actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She costarred in David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future with Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux which premiered in Cannes. From that film, Viggo Mortensen cast her in his western The Dead Don't Hurt, starring Vicky Krieps. As a young actress in Canada, she starred in Jeremy Podeswa's feature film debut The Five Senses. That film premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and won several awards. Podeswa then cast her as Sam Shepard's daughter, for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Canada Screen Awards. After getting her film theory degree, was was accepted to the Berlin Talent Lab where her mentors included Tilda Swinton and Wim Wenders. She was a director in residence at Nornan Jewison's Canadian Film Center. Her first short film as a director played at over 25 international film festivals, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and winning Best Short at Austin's Fantastic Fest. Her feature The People Garden (Scythia Films) was shot in Canada and Japan and stars Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, Francois Arnaud, Jai Tatsuto West and James Le Gros. It won the audience award at TIFF Screenwriting lab and later premiered at BAFICI. It was released by Orion Pictures(World).
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Nadia Litz is an award-winning Canadian/British actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She costarred in David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future with Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux which premiered in Cannes. From that film, Viggo Mortensen cast her in his western The Dead Don't Hurt, starring Vicky Krieps. As a young actress in Canada, she starred in Jeremy Podeswa's feature film debut The Five Senses. That film premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and won several awards. Podeswa then cast her as Sam Shepard's daughter, for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Canada Screen Awards. After getting her film theory degree, was was accepted to the Berlin Talent Lab where her mentors included Tilda Swinton and Wim Wenders. She was a director in residence at Nornan Jewison's Canadian Film Center. Her first short film as a director played at over 25 international film festivals, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and winning Best Short at Austin's Fantastic Fest. Her feature The People Garden (Scythia Films) was shot in Canada and Japan and stars Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, Francois Arnaud, Jai Tatsuto West and James Le Gros. It won the audience award at TIFF Screenwriting LAB and later premiered at BAFICI. It was released by Orion Pictures(World).
- IMDb mini biography by: anoymous

On the importance of making cool films for young women Nadia Litz said: "As a young woman, films like Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar meant a great deal to me. They were spellbinding like other films I was discovering at the time by directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch. But they were female-centric. I felt like they spoke directly to me as a young woman in a way that I craved growing up.".

A champion high school debater while attending St. Johns's Ravenscourt, Litz was once judged in a national debate competition by Justin Trudeau who went on to become the Prime Minister of Canada.

After being a successful actress in Canada for several years she was "discovered' by Danish auteur Nicholas Windig Refn at a party celebrating experimental director Guy Maddin. Refn was shooting his film fear X and fired someone he had already cast and replaced them with Litz, casting her as a waitress in a scene opposite John Turturro because she looked like Icelandic singer Bjork.

While visiting Winnipeg, Nadia was eating dinner with her Mom, when she approached by director Nicholas Windig Refn who, not realizing she was an actress, asked her to be in his movie Fear X.

While in university, Nadia interned at entrepreneur Ron Dembo's sustainability firm Zerofootprint, a cleantech software and services company and Fashion Television alongside Brother Vellies designer Aurora Brown.