Nina Gilden Seavey Filmography
MAJOR PROJECTS
PARABLES OF WAR - Director/Producer
Independent – Funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Production Grant. 32 minute short film.
Awards
Gold Award - Spotlight International Short Film Competition, 2016
Peter C Rollins Award for Best Documentary Film in Popular and American Culture, 2016
International Atlas Award for Best Documentary Short Film, 2016
Award of Merit for a Documentary Short for Creativity, Impact Documentary Awards, 2016
IndieCapitol Awards - Best Documentary Short Film, 2016
Award of Merit for an Original Score, Impact Documentary Awards, 2016
Gold Award - California Film Awards, 2015
Platinum Award - Oregon International Film Awards, 2015
Best Documentary Short Film - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award, 2015
Nominee – Los Angeles Film Review, Best Documentary Short 2015
Gold Award – International Independent Film Awards, 2015
Awards of Merit with Special Mention for a Documentary Short and Woman-Directed Film, Best Shorts Competition, 2015
Distribution
Gravitas Entertainment – Digital and transactional distribution on VOD, ITunes, Xbox, PlayStation, Amazon Prime, Vudu and many other digital platforms.
Specialty Screenings: National Gallery of Art Special Event Screening for Memorial Day 2017, Wounded Warrior Foundation Special Screening 2017, festival and nontheatrical screenings 2015-2017
Theatrical run at the IFC Center, NYC 2015
THE WAR AT HOME - Director, Co-Producer, Writer
Commissioned by the National Park Service – permanent installation exhibition short film
Awards
First Prize, National Association for Interpretation Media, 2013
Silver Telly Award (First Place) in History and Biography, 2013
Silver Telly Award (First Place) in Set Design, 2013
Silver Telly Award (First Place) in Sound Design and Sound Mix, 2013
Bronze Telly Award (Second Place) in Screenwriting, 2013
Special Jury Award – World Fest Houston, Best in Film and Video Production, International Competition, 2013
Gold Communicator Award (Int’l Academy of the Visual Arts) – Screenwriting, 2013
Gold Communicator Award - Use of Music in a Film, 2013
Silver Communicator Award– History/Biography, 2013
Silver Communicator Award (Int’l Academy of the Visual Arts) – Set Design, 2013
Cine Golden Eagle – Exhibitions and Installations, 2013
Distribution
Large screen installation centerpiece film that screens every 30 minutes in the main visitors’ center at the Rosie The Riveter/Home Front National Park on San Francisco Bay. Scheduled to appear for 20 years.
4TH & GOAL - Director, Co-Producer
Independent – Equity Financed. Feature-length film.
Awards
Winner, Italian National Olympic Committee Cup, 29th Annual FICTS Festival of Sports Movies and Television, Milan, Italy
Silver Telly Award (First Place) in Best in Sports Programming
Distribution
Strategic Partnership with the NFL Players Association for national-wide screenings in the “Training Camp for Life,” 2011-2012
Broadcast: ESPN Europe
Video-On-Demand - Gravitas Ventures and Warner Brothers
DVD - First Run Features • Digital: Amazon InstantView, ITunes, Vudu, Blockbuster on Demand, Cinema Now, Xbox, Playstation 3
THE MATADOR - Producer, Co-Director
Independent – Equity Financed. Feature-length film.
Awards
New York Times Critics’ Pick, 2010
Emmy nomination for Best Original Score, 2010
Winner, Cine Golden Eagle, Best Independent Documentary, 2011
Special Jury Award, Best Independent Documentary, Cine Awards, 2012
Distribution
Theatrical: City Lights Pictures – New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Tucson, Chicago
Broadcast: Sundance Channel, May 2010
Blu Ray and DVD: Warner Brothers Entertainment
A SHORT HISTORY OF SWEET POTATO PIE AND HOW IT BECAME A FLYING SAUCER - Producer, Director
Equity Financed documentary comedy. 17 minute short film.
Awards
International Documentary Association, Nominee – IDA Distinguished Achievement in a Documentary Short, 2006
DC Shorts Film Festival, Audience Award, 2006
Fargo Film Festival: Best Documentary, 2006
Distribution
30 domestic and international film festivals, Spiritual Cinema Circle DVD Offering, Digital Download on SnagFilms
THE OPEN ROAD: AMERICA LOOKS AT AGING - Producer/Director/Writer/Chief Outreach Strategist
Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Television-length film.
Distribution
Broadcast: national release on public broadcasting via OPB July, 2005
Non-Theatrical: Focus of 40 national town hall meetings
DVD: First Run Features
Digital: Snag Films, Hulu, Epix
THE BALLAD OF BERING STRAIT - Director/Producer
Independent Co-Financed by NHK and private donors. Feature-length film.
Awards
Emmy Award Nominee for Best Director, 2004
Winner, Audience Award, Washington International Film Festival, 2002
Winner, Audience Prize, Marco Island Film Festival for Best Documentary, 2002
Winner, Best Long-Form Editing, The Peer Awards, 2002
Honorable Mention, Best Documentary, The Peer Awards, 2002
Winner, Chris Award, Columbus International Film Festival, 2003
Distribution
Theatrical: Represented for theatrical distribution by Emerging Pictures in association with Microsoft and Digital Cinema Solutions – opened in New York, LA, Austin, and Minneapolis
Broadcast: Viacom VH1/CMT, Rainbow Media
DVD/VHS: Koch-Lorber Entertainment
International distribution: 3-DD Entertainment, London, England
Digitial: Snag Films, Hulu, Itunes, Amazon, Netflix (digital and DVD), Epix
A PARALYZING FEAR: THE STORY OF POLIO IN AMERICA - Producer/Director/Writer
Independent – Financed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Production Grant. Feature-length film.
Awards
Emmy Award for Best Research in a News or Documentary Program, 1999
Emmy Nomination for Best Editing, 1999
Emmy Nomination for Best Music, 1999
Erik Barnouw Prize for Best Historical Film of the Year, 1999
International Film and Video Festival, Certificate of Recognition for Creative Excellence, 1999
Gold Award, Cindy Award for Northeastern United States, 1999
Axiem Award for Outstanding Achievement in Television Documentary, 1999
Golden Hugo for Outstanding Achievement in History and Biography, 1999
Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Educational Filmmaking, 1998
International Documentary Association – ABC News VideoSource Award, nominee, 1998
Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Outreach for Documentary Film, 2000
Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film and Video Festival, 2000
Gold Medal, International Cindy Competition, for Best International Broadcast, 2000
Distribution
Theatrical: Film Forum, NYC 1998.
Theatrical and Non-Theatrical: 60 city tour in collaboration with the March of Dimes including New York, LA, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, among many others
Broadcast: PBS national broadcast, premiere, October 5,1998, in reairings until 2001
Second window: The Documentary Channel – 2002-2005
VHS: PBS Video
DVD: First Run Features
International: Charles Scheurhoff and Associates
Digital: – ITunes, Netflix (digital and DVD), Snag Films, Epix, Hulu, Amazon InstantView
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO
Distribution
Discovery Channel Commission – the first commission of Discovery Communications for a feature-length film, 1995
ADDITIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION CREDITS
THE MESSENGERS – Producer, the intimate three-year journey of two young girls who volunteer at Joseph’s House, a hospice for homeless HIV/AIDs patients. Lucian Perkins, Director, Cinematographer, Editor. In festival distribution. 2019-2020.
WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS – Story Consultant, The story of four Afghan teenaged girls in their pursuit of an education at a newly built school for girls in a small village outside of Kabul. Director, Beth Murphy, Director. 2016. DuPont Columbia Silver Baton 2017, Edward R Murrow Award, 2017, Peabody Finalist, 2017.
THE LIST – Story Consultant. Feature-length documentary exploring the fate of Iraqi employees of the U.S. government now targeted for assassination in the wake of U.S. troop pullout in that country. World Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival 2012, In Competition; Hot Docs Documentary Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, among others.
SOLDIERS OF PAINT– Story consultant. Feature-length documentary following the annual reenactment of D-Day by paint ball enthusiasts. Completion: 2012
LET THE FIRE BURN - Senior Producer during the pre-editorial phase - historical documentary exploring the bombing of the Move compound in Philadelphia, PA in 1985.
MOSCOW EXHIBITION 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE KITCHEN DEBATE – Producer/Director for commemoration video of the 1959 Moscow Exhibition which resulted in the famed “Kitchen Debate” between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev to be shown at the opening of a day-long conference July 23 2009 hosted by the Institute for Public Diplomacy and the Kennan Institute.
WELCOME TO COLUMBIAN COLLEGE – Producer/Director for seven minute “welcome video” for the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, GWU, 2009. Featured on CCAS website 2009-2012.
SILVERDOCS TRIBUTE VIDEOS - Director – Charles Guggenheim, Barbara Koppel, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Al Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, 2003–2010
AVIAN FLU – Producer/director for short videos for Department of Health and Human Services, 2007 EVENING LIGHT – Producer, Director, Dramatic Feature, Scripting Complete
MURDERBALL – Production Consultant, Academy Award nominee 2006, Winner, Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival, 2005
SILVERDOCS PROMOTIONAL SPOTS - Director – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 – Theatrical and television versions, Winner, Local Emmy Award 2004 6
LEAVING HOME – Producer/Director/Writer – segment for Life 360, PBS, 2002 ISLAND OUT OF TIME – Production Consultant, Winner, Pare Lorentz Award, IDA, 2001
CONQUERING FEAR: EPIDEMIC DISEASE TODAY – Producer/Writer, 30 minute public affairs programming on issues of post-polio syndrome, global eradication of polio, and the future of childhood immunization. PBS national broadcast, 1998
. . . . AND THERE WE WANDERED SOMETIMES WEST - Co-Producer for 12 minute installation film on the meaning in American mind of “going west”, Scott Bluff National Monument, National Park Service, 1997
ANCHOR OF THE SOUL: BLACK HISTORY IN MAINE – Production Consultant, 1994
DOCUMENTARIES ON PERMANENT EXHIBITION – Producer - four short films for the Smithsonian Institution, National Postal Museum, 1993
GOT MY MOJO WORKIN’: A HISTORY OF THE BLUES – Director, Washington Film Research, 1992
THE SLOAN VIDEOHISTORY PROJECT – Producer/Director, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1988-1990
RICHARD SAMUEL ROBERTS DOCUMENTARY PROJECT – Treatment Writer, 1987
EVERYDAY IN AMERICA – Writer, American Judicature Society, 1987
SPENCER WILLIAMS DOCUMENTARY PROJECT – Treatment writer, 1986
THE LAWMAKERS – Segment Producer, WETA-TV, 1985-1986
SPECIAL PROJECTS - Producer, WMAR-TV, 1985
JACK ANDERSON CONFIDENTIAL – Co-Creator and Show Producer for Investigative journalism news magazine television program syndicated on ABC – 1984
MUTUAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION – Radio Programming Development Consultant – 1982-83