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.

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

Both were screened at major documentary film festivals, including IDFA, DOKLeipzig, DOCNYC, Cinekid and
Docville.

Today, Nina works as a freelance documentary producer. She is developing her first feature-length
documentary, The Floor is Yours, about chronic pelvic pain. She is also working on Moederschoot, a
TV show about postnatal depression.

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2023-24, 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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