Biography

Nadine Crocker makes films built on a single conviction: film can save lives.

Her debut feature, Continue, drawn from her own survival of a suicide attempt at twenty-three, opened in theaters in September 2024 for World Suicide Prevention Month. Written, directed, and produced by Crocker and released by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment, the film holds a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and has won more than fifteen awards across its festival run, including Grand Jury Best Feature Film and Best Actress at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Best Director and Best Achievement in First Time Filmmaking at the Mammoth Film Festival. A portion of proceeds benefits mental health and suicide prevention charities through her nonprofit, Continue On, which she founded alongside the release.

Her second feature, Desperation Road, starring Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, Willa Fitzgerald, and Ryan Hurst, was also released worldwide by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment and reached the Top Ten on Netflix UK. Crocker produced the film with Cassian Elwes.

Born in Nashville and raised in Fresno, Crocker left high school at sixteen and moved to Los Angeles alone, certain that a life in film was worth everything she was leaving behind. She has been making good on that bet ever since.
- IMDb mini biography by: J. Chris Newberg