Nina Fiore
Nina Fiore is the Founder and Executive Director of Astoria Film Festival in NYC. Nina has a BA and EdM from Harvard University and has long been involved with content production (for digital media, tv, and film), afterschool education, and nonprofit management. Nina managed the team at Viacom that created and launched the Noggin Channel and also created and produced content for MTV, Comedy Central, PBS, Sesame Street, Paramount TV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central, Sesame Workshop, USA Networks, WE Networks, Merrill Lynch, Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Channel. She was also Senior Producer of the lifestyle TV show Everyday Elegance with Colin Cowie, and PBS’s Wired Science. Nina returned to MTV Networks in 2006 to lead their podcasting, SEO, and social media production and then began her own business creating and managing digital content for numerous organizations. Additionally, she has worked as an Assistant Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, and Editor on a number of Independent Films. Nina also has over 25 years of experience in Education. She managed an After School Program in the Mission Hill Housing Complex in Roxbury, MA, created a Digital After School program at the Children’s Aid Society in Harlem, NYC, that served as a pilot program for Intel’s Computer Classrooms, and, after graduate school at Harvard, served as Communications Director and Grants Manager for an Educational Research Group at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School that worked with struggling Boston Public Schools. Nina also served as STEM and Art Instructor, and eventually, Director of Education, at Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens, where she conceived of creating the Astoria Film Festival, to connect local youth with the filmmakers in the community and with industry professionals. She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member and Partner for the CTE Film Program at the High School of Art and Design, and runs a workforce development media production program for disabled and low income youth in partnership with MBS Group/Kaufman Astoria Studios, CUNY LEADS, HS of Art and Design, and Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens. Nina is a disabled woman who homeschools her disabled son, advocates for disability rights, and resides in her hometown of Astoria, NY.
As a Development Fellow with RespectAbility, Fiore-Bogdanov worked closely with the writers of the following scripts:
- “Wendy on Wheels,” written by Asha Chai-Chang
- “Him & Grim,” written by Charles Frazier
- “The Artful Adventures of an Awen,” written by Ty Freedman
- “Hawk Hall,” written by Mars Gorman
- “Shtories,” written by Miranda Hoyt
- “Life on Mars,” written by Kimberly Manky
- “N is for Neurodiversity,” written by Deirdre Morales
- “Mole and Bug,” written by Matt Opatrny
