Nadia Litz

Nadia Litz is a Canadian/British actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. As a young actress in Canada, she starred in Jeremy Podeswa's feature film debut The Five Senses, where she played a teenager experimenting with sexual identity. That film premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight. Soon after, she starred as Sam Shepard's daughter, for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the Canada Screen Awards, in Podeswa's follow-up After The Harvest. 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 that Nornan Jewison's Canadian Film Center. Her first short film as a director played over 25 film festivals internationally, 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 Pacific Northwest Pictures (Canada)/Filmbuff (US)/Orion Pictures(World). She costarred in David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future with Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux which premiered in Cannes. She can also be seen in Mortensen's western The Dead Don't Hurt, starring Vicky Krieps.