Nadia Tass
Nadia Tass was born in Macedonia in 1956. Four years later she moved to Australia. After an academic career in Arts and Education, she began acting and later directing theatre in Melbourne. She directed her first feature film, Malcolm, in 1986. Since then Nadia has directed the Australian features Rikky and Pete (1987), The Big Steal (1989), Mr Reliable (1997) and Amy (1998), which received 23 international awards including Best Film at the Paris Film Festival and two Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival. Nadia then started working in the US directing many major movies, such as Pure Luck (1991) for Universal, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) for Disney, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004), and Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005) for Warner Bros. She has continued her relationship with theatre by directing the Melbourne Theatre Company. In 2002/2003 she directed the musical production The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (adapted from the first episode of the saga The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis), which toured Australia and New Zealand and was rewarded with a nomination at the prestigious Sir Robert Helpmann Awards. Nadia has now a number of feature films in development with American studios, in addition to the projects of her own production company Cascade Films.
