Nadia Szold

Nadia Szold is an award-winning American filmmaker, a writer and a mother. Her first work as a director was at 17 when she founded her theater troupe and put on Waiting for Godot. She directed 14 plays performed in New England and New York before turning to film. Her first feature Joy de V., starring Evan Louison, Iva Gocheva and Claudia Cardinale, premiered at Slamdance in 2013 to critical acclaim and a nod from the jury. The film examines the shortcomings and ultimate disaster of a hetero normative relationship between an Italian American con-artist and his pregnant wife who disappears one morning. A Film Independent Fellow, Szold premiered her first documentary feature Larry Flynt for President at the 2021 Tribeca Festival to critical acclaim. Working with multiple archives of never-before-seen footage, Nadia tells the definitive story behind one of America's most controversial dissidents and his campaign of anarchic satire against Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. It has since been touring festivals, picking up audience & jury awards and recently sold at Cannes to territories around the world.