filmshop Director of operations
NINA GIELEN
Director, Producer, Writer
Nina is Filmshop’s Director of Operations. Her short films have been shown at numerous festivals in the U.S. and internationally. In her writing, her focus is on character-driven dramas with a dark but empathetic spin. Her LGBTQ/true-crime/coming-of-age feature Magic Window was selected for participation in the From Script to Preproduction (FS2P) development lab, the Northeast Filmmakers Lab, and Filmshop’s independently juried Breakthrough Series; advanced to the second round of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and was a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Film Fund and a semifinalist for the Renegades Production Grant.
An independent filmmaker and nonprofit arts administrator, her professional interests also include festival programming and creative project development.