Nadia Szold

{{Short description|American filmmaker}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|09|28}}

| birth_place = Pittsfield, MA

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| education = Hotchkiss School (Highschool)

New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study (University)

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| years_active = 2002-present

| known_for = Film Director, Producer, Writer

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| children = Sydney Jerome Prince

| mother = Honey Sharp Lippman

| father = David Harris Lippman

| family = Abby Ginzberg (cousin) Eli Ginzberg (great uncle) Mort Lindsey (grandfather) Henrietta Szold (great great aunt)

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Nadia Szold (born 28 September 1984{{cite web|title=Nadia Szold|url=http://www.1985artists.com/contributor/nadia-szold|website=1985|publisher=1985artists|accessdate=18 July 2015}}) is a film director, producer and writer. She began working in theater in her teens in New England. After reading Waiting for Godot at 17, Nadia Szold formed Cojones Company. Fourteen plays later, she founded Cinema Imperfecta out of her apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Hope & Anchor, Thievery, The Persian Love Cake and Some Kinda Fuckery were the first short films produced and directed under its banner in Paris and New York. Simultaneously, Szold worked for Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay of Forensic Films. She also earned a degree from Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.{{cite web|last1=Benaich|first1=Guillaume|title=Nadia Szold: Between the woods and frozen lake|url=http://magazine.seymourprojects.com/2012/04/nadia-szold-between-the-woods-and-frozen-lake/|website=Seymour Projects|publisher=Seymour Magazine|accessdate=18 July 2015|date=3 April 2012}}

Her first feature film, which she both produced and wrote, Joy de V., premiered at Slamdance in 2013 to critical acclaim and won a Special Jury Mention.{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Brandon|title=A Conversation with Nadia Szold and Evan Louison (JOY DE V.)|url=http://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-nadia-szold-and-evan-louison-joy-de-v/|accessdate=18 July 2015|publisher=Hammer to Nail|date=18 June 2013}} The film starred Evan Louison, Josephine de La Baume, Iva Gocheva, and Claudia Cardinale.{{cite news|title=Joy de V.: Slamdance Review|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/joy-de-v-slamdance-review-411784|accessdate=18 July 2015|publisher=Hollywood Reporter}}

Her second feature, Mariah, starring Dakota Goldhor and Evan Louison, was shot in Mexico during the rise of vigilante groups reclaiming cartel controlled regions.

A Film Independent Fellow of the 2016 Documentary Lab, Szold's first feature documentary was the award-winning archival documentary "Larry Flynt for President" (2021). It premiered The Tribeca Festival and then went on to win multiple audience and jury awards on the festival circuit. Nadia's second documentary feature was "The Figures: An Abstract on Geoffrey Young" (2024) about the poet, artist and gallerist Geoffrey Young.