BIO

Nina Landau (b. 1986) holds a Master's degree in Criminology (2008) and a Bachelor's degree in
International Politics (2010) from the Free University of Brussels (VUB).
She started her career in the media and film industry in 2012 as a journalist

at the Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Association. 

She wrote political news articles but soon felt the lure of the audiovisual world and switched to
television production.

Between 2013 and 2017, she worked for production companies Motionmakers and Sputnik Media and produced reportages for televisionand corporate films for companies and NGOs. A small selection of their clients: Infrabel, NMBS, VDAB, Deloitte, Carrefour, Flanders DC, Logeren in Vlaanderen, Westtoer, ...

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In 2017, she decided to focus on documentary film production and started working as a documentary
film producer at Associate Directors, an Antwerp-based production company specialising in auteur-
driven documentaries for the Belgian and international markets.

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In 2023 Nina founded MIDNIGHT BLUE, a research and story development company for documentary films and series. Through in-depth research and character development she collaborates closely with filmmakers and producers to uncover and craft compelling narratives and help them bring to life on screen.

Nina has also directed two short documentaries, Lon in 2017 and My Family is a Circus in 2020.

Both films were screened at major documentary film festivals, including IDFA, DOKLeipzig, DOCNYC, Cinekid and
Docville. She is currently developing The Wonder Down Under, a short documentary about the vaginal microbiome and The Floor is Yours, a feature lenght documentary about chronic pelvic pain. 

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

2024-2025, Series' Women (Erich Pommer Institute)

• 2023-2024, Leadership and Authenticity in Film (VAF)

• 2022, Story Engines and Characters in TV-shows (VAF)

• 2019, Ket&Doc - Children's Documentary Workshop (VAF)

• 2018, Documentary Impact Lab (DocSociety)

• 2018, Docs in Thessaloniki Pitching Workshop

• 2018, Moving Docs Outreach Workshop

• 2016, Storytelling in the Digital World

• 2015, Storytooling (Tim Verheyden & Ezra Eeman)

• 2014, Finding stories in Archives (Eric Hennekam)

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EDUCATION

• 2017 - International Research Journalism - Thomas More Hogeschool, Mechelen

• 2010, Bachelor in Political Sciences - International Politics - VUB, Brussels

• 2008, Master in Criminology - VUB, Brussels

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