Nadia Litz

Nadia Litz is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. After graduating early from high school, she attended York University Theatre program but paused her degree when she was cast in director Jeremy Podeswa’s feature The Five Senses, where she played a teenager experimenting with gender and sexuality 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 at York University, Nadia was accepted to the Berlin Talent Lab where her mentors included Tilda Swinton and Wim Wenders. 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). In 2021 she began filming David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future in Greece. She is a Canadian/British citizen who lives outside Los Angeles.