NINA CASPARI
Film Director & Photographer
About Nina
Part of Directors UK Inspire 2025-26
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Nina is an award-winning film director working at the intersection of emotional surrealism, where beauty and darkness collide. With a background in photography and experimental film, her work is defined by a magical-realistic aesthetic and a focus on empowering women’s stories, creating visually distinctive, atmospheric films with a strong sense of composition, mood, and emotional depth.
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Her films have screened internationally at BAFTA-qualifying and Oscar-qualifying festivals including Aesthetica Short Film Festival and Interfilm Berlin, as well as Kino der Kunst (jury chaired by Cindy Sherman), VAEFF New York, and FFO Oostende, where her work 'The Silk Silence of the Wild Cotton Candy' was screened as the introduction to Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza.
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She is the recipient of multiple awards including Best Experimental Short Film for Bella Di Notte at Post Cinema Film Festival and Best Music Video for Crystallica at the Florence Film Awards, and is currently developing her debut feature film under the mentorship of Louise Hooper (Directors UK Inspire).
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Alongside directing, Nina has developed a cross-disciplinary filmmaking practice across editing, costume design, and art direction. From shaping narrative rhythm in the edit suite to designing character-driven costumes, which led to nominations at the Belgian Film Awards (Les Magritte du Cinéma and the Ensors), and building immersive visual worlds from the ground up, this practice has deeply informed her directorial approach and strengthened a distinctive visual language, storytelling instinct, and ability to lead projects from concept to final cut with clarity and cohesion.​
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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2025 Winner 'Best Experimental Short Film' at Post Cinema Film Festival, Sicily
2021 Finalist of Trieste Science+Fiction Prize, with photograph The Slumber
2020 Nominee 6th Fine Art Photography Awards, with photograph Medallion III
2019 Finalist of Urban Photo Awards, dotART, with photograph Medallion III
2015 Award Andrei Ivaneanu for Armora
2014 Nomination 3rd Intervideo Young Talent Award, Germany
2014 Nomination Experimental Short Visual Piece at Interference Festival in Poland
FESTIVAL SELCTIONS & Publications (selected)
2025 Official Selection at Post Cinema Film Festival 2025, Syracuse, Italy
2025 Official Selection at The Poetic Phonoteque 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 Honourable Mention Video Art & Experimental Film Festival VAEFF, NYC, USA
2024 Official Selection Florence International Film Festival, Florence, Italy
2024 Semi-Finalist at Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival 2024, Canada
2019 Official Selection Lady Filmmakers Festival, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2019 Publication of photograph 'Medallion III' on PhotoVogue Italia, april
2015 Performance of Armora, Prolog 2015, DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Director's Choice Selection Underexposed Film Festival, Rock Hill, SC, USA
2014 Official Selection Interfilm 2014, Berlin, Germany
2014 Official Selection at Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, New York City, USA
2014 Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England
2014 Official Selection 7th Crosstalk Videoart Festival in Budapest, Hungary
2013 Kurzundschön Kurzfilmnacht, Screening of The Silk Silence of the Wild Cotton Candy on German television, WDR and Einsfestival, November 2013
2013 Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England
2013 Official Selection CologneOFF IX - 9th Cologne Int. Videoart Festival, Germany
2013 Official Selection Cairo Video Festival 2013, Egypt
2013 Official Selection INVIDEO, Milano, Italy
2013 Official Selection FFO, screened as introduction to Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grande Bellezza', Oostende, Belgium
2013 Official Selection KINO DER KUNST, Munich, Germany
2013 Official Selection ISFF Detmold, Germany
2013 Official Selection Cine Public Short Film Festival Ghent, Belgium
2012 Official Selection IKL International Short Film Festival Leuven 2012, Belgium
2011 HOT 100 Talents, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Reveries, Group Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
2019 Art Maze, Group Exhibition, Oxo Tower, London, UK
2019 Group exhibition, Trieste Photo Days, Finalist Urban Photo Awards 2019, Cormòns, Italy
2019 New Artist Fair, Old Truman Brewery, Shoreditch, London, UK
2016 'In het spoor van de meester: Andrei Ivaneanu', Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2015 Mastershow Costume Design, DeStudio Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Group exhibition TIME PIECES at Nordstern Video Art Centre, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2011 Menzis Jong Talent 2011, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2011 AKI ArtEZ Graduation Show 2011, Enschede, The Netherlands
2011 Twente Biennale Hengelo, The Netherlands
2010 5th International Student Triennale Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Screening Frans-Nederlandse Ontmoetingsdagen, Paris, France
2010 Exhibtion 3=6, Enschede, The Netherlands
"Nina’s natural connection and understanding of music is one of the many reasons I love collaborating with her." - NATALYA, singer-songwriter
"Nina is an admirable talent. She is able to visualize what she has in her mind using special and innovative methods. Reality is somewhere. Fantasy will take her anywhere." - Johan Visser, Founder of Idiot Records & Graphic Illustrator
"Nina's directing sensibilities are unique and powerful. I'm a big fan of her ethereal aesthetics and art direction and hauntingly beautiful cinematography. Strong female characters are at the centre of much of her work and she has a strong understanding of commercial content whilst not losing sight of her artistic vision.
She's also, importantly, a really lovely person and a pleasure to work with."
- Kim French, Head of Marketing at Preen, Founder of Edit Girls
GET IN TOUCH
E- info[at]ninacaspari.com
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