Natasha Maidoff
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Natasha Maidoff's work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her award-winning films have toured internationally, including screenings at the Guggenheim and Pecci Museums. She has received artist residencies to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Maidoff earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA's School of Film, Theater and Television where she won the Director's Spotlight Award. Maidoff has written/directed over 27 award-winning narrative and experimental films, and made installations and documentaries which have screened at film festivals internationally. Her narrative screenplays have been optioned by Hollywood producers and represented by CAA. Her memoir, A Different Animal, has just been submitted to publishers. Maidoff has also been the recipient of a Mellon Grant for a environmentally themed multi-media performance art piece.
During four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University's School of Film, Maidoff was living in the foothills of Appalachia, which is at the epicenter of the opiate epidemic. Maidoff conducted extensive research interviewing doctors, nurses, addicts, social workers and youth. The stories of young women inspired her to write the TV pilot Opiate Orphans as well as write and direct the short film, The Fullest Day of Summer.
Maidoff is currently a Lecturer at Chapman University in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Her screenplay, Illegitimate, was just selected as a semifinalist for The Writers Lab 2021.
"I have nothing but praise and admiration for Natasha's work - its overall direction, its professional execution and her potential for future, continuous excellence in film/video production and related work. I find her work brave, amazing and inspiring." - Janet Bergstrom, Professor, Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA (Scholar of Renoir, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Claire Denis Chantal Akerman.)
During four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University's School of Film, Maidoff was living in the foothills of Appalachia, which is at the epicenter of the opiate epidemic. Maidoff conducted extensive research interviewing doctors, nurses, addicts, social workers and youth. The stories of young women inspired her to write the TV pilot Opiate Orphans as well as write and direct the short film, The Fullest Day of Summer.
Maidoff is currently a Lecturer at Chapman University in the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Her screenplay, Illegitimate, was just selected as a semifinalist for The Writers Lab 2021.
"I have nothing but praise and admiration for Natasha's work - its overall direction, its professional execution and her potential for future, continuous excellence in film/video production and related work. I find her work brave, amazing and inspiring." - Janet Bergstrom, Professor, Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA (Scholar of Renoir, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Claire Denis Chantal Akerman.)
