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Nadia Litz est une Actrice, Réalisatrice et Ecrivain Canadienne née le 26 décembre 1976 à Winnipeg (Canada)
Nadia Litz (born December 26, 1976) is a Canadian actress and director.
Litz would go on to achieve a long acting resume, although she often received no money for her parts and instead chose projects she liked. In 1998 and 1999 she appeared in episodes of the Canadian television series Due South and Wind at My Back. She starred in Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses that screened at The Director's Fortnight in Cannes. She later received the title role in the short film Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl (2002) by Brad Peyton. That year, she also appeared in the television film Salem Witch Trials as Mary Walcott (here called May Walcott), and has starred in films such as Rhinoceros Eyes (2003) and Monkey Warfare (2006) for which she won a Vancouver Critics Award and You Are Here (2011).
Eye Weekly has described her career by saying she was praised for her role in The Five Senses, and that magazine credited her work in Love That Boy with transforming "a potentially irritating character- Phoebe, a 21-year-old overachiever who accidentally falls for a boy seven years her junior- into an oddly endearing figure who's surprised to find herself wracked by the aches that love brings." Her honours have included being named by Maclean's magazine as "25 People Under 25 To Watch" for The Five Senses, and being nominated for a Gemini Award for acting in the television miniseries After the Harvest.
While studying film theory, Litz briefly considered law school as a "fallback career possibility," although the law degree would be used for film production and not to leave the film business. She explained to the press that "I work, but I work in independent films. There have been a few years that I have made a living and a few years that I haven't. It's a struggle for anyone trying to have a full-time career in film in Canada. Or anywhere."
Litz's graduating year she wrote, directed, shot and edited her first short film, on super 8 film called Remembering The Only Time I Tried To Stop My Heart From Failing (and Failed).
In 2009 she attended the prestigious Berlinale Talent Campus and studied under Janusz Kaminski and Tilda Swinton who were guest moderators. Later that year, she was accepted as a Director-in-Residence to Norman Jewison's sought after program at the Canadian Film Center. There she directed the successful short film called How To Rid Your Lover Of A Negative Emotion Caused By You! which made its world debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, described by The Style Notebook as "one of the best films at TIFF this year!"
^ Rita Zekas, "Warning Powdered coffee creamer is nothing to sniff at," Toronto Star, October 24, 2003, pg. D.06.
^ Jason Anderson, "MEET... Nadia Litz," Eye Weekly, November 13, 2003, URL accessed 19 February 2007.
^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Litz hits glitz blitz," National Post, September 9, 2006, URL accessed 19 February 2007.
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Nadia Litz
Biographie
She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A former child actor, she has described herself as somewhat ambitious. She is of Russian, Polish and British descent. She took an interest in films at the age of 6, and started living in Toronto at 17 to attend York University, but left to audition for the title role in the 1997 film version of Lolita, which she lost to Dominique Swain.Litz would go on to achieve a long acting resume, although she often received no money for her parts and instead chose projects she liked. In 1998 and 1999 she appeared in episodes of the Canadian television series Due South and Wind at My Back. She starred in Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses that screened at The Director's Fortnight in Cannes. She later received the title role in the short film Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl (2002) by Brad Peyton. That year, she also appeared in the television film Salem Witch Trials as Mary Walcott (here called May Walcott), and has starred in films such as Rhinoceros Eyes (2003) and Monkey Warfare (2006) for which she won a Vancouver Critics Award and You Are Here (2011).
Eye Weekly has described her career by saying she was praised for her role in The Five Senses, and that magazine credited her work in Love That Boy with transforming "a potentially irritating character- Phoebe, a 21-year-old overachiever who accidentally falls for a boy seven years her junior- into an oddly endearing figure who's surprised to find herself wracked by the aches that love brings." Her honours have included being named by Maclean's magazine as "25 People Under 25 To Watch" for The Five Senses, and being nominated for a Gemini Award for acting in the television miniseries After the Harvest.
While studying film theory, Litz briefly considered law school as a "fallback career possibility," although the law degree would be used for film production and not to leave the film business. She explained to the press that "I work, but I work in independent films. There have been a few years that I have made a living and a few years that I haven't. It's a struggle for anyone trying to have a full-time career in film in Canada. Or anywhere."
Litz's graduating year she wrote, directed, shot and edited her first short film, on super 8 film called Remembering The Only Time I Tried To Stop My Heart From Failing (and Failed).
In 2009 she attended the prestigious Berlinale Talent Campus and studied under Janusz Kaminski and Tilda Swinton who were guest moderators. Later that year, she was accepted as a Director-in-Residence to Norman Jewison's sought after program at the Canadian Film Center. There she directed the successful short film called How To Rid Your Lover Of A Negative Emotion Caused By You! which made its world debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, described by The Style Notebook as "one of the best films at TIFF this year!"
^ Rita Zekas, "Warning Powdered coffee creamer is nothing to sniff at," Toronto Star, October 24, 2003, pg. D.06.
^ Jason Anderson, "MEET... Nadia Litz," Eye Weekly, November 13, 2003, URL accessed 19 February 2007.
^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Litz hits glitz blitz," National Post, September 9, 2006, URL accessed 19 February 2007.
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Filmographie de Nadia Litz (11 films)
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, 2hRéalisé par Fernando Meirelles
Origine Bresil
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Thriller
Thèmes Maladie, Épidémie, Le handicap, Politique, Dystopique, La cécité, Film catastrophe
Acteurs Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Danny Glover, Yoshino Kimura, Alice Braga
Rôle Woman of Ward One
Note64%
Tout commence quand un homme perd subitement la vue alors qu’il est au volant de sa voiture, attendant que le feu passe au vert. Très vite, chacune des personnes qu’il rencontre : le « bon samaritain » qui le raccompagne chez lui, son médecin, les autres patients dans la salle d'attente… sont frappés de « cécité blanche ». Seule la femme du médecin est mystérieusement épargnée. Alors que la contagion s’étend à une vitesse fulgurante, la panique gagne la ville. Les victimes de l’épidémie sont de plus en plus nombreuses et les autorités les placent en quarantaine dans un hôpital désaffecté. La femme du médecin, décidée à rester auprès de son mari, fait croire qu'elle a également perdu la vue. À l’hôpital, elle tente d’organiser un semblant de vie quotidienne civilisée. Lorsque le confinement dégénère en explosion de violence, elle prend la tête de la révolte et guide une famille improvisée à travers la ville dévastée.
Monkey Warfare (2006)
Origine Canada
Genres Drame, Comédie
Acteurs Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz, Jayne Eastwood, Sarah Manninen
Rôle Susan
Note63%
Love that Boy (2003)
, 1h25Genres Comédie romantique
Acteurs Nadia Litz, Ellen Page
Rôle Phoebe
Note63%
Phoebe (Nadia Litz) is a perky type-A university student who has difficulty relating to her fellow students. Her only friend is her roommate Robin (Nikki Barnett) who she smothers with advice. Eventually Robin cracks under the pressure of being Phoebe's only friend and leaves on a plane with a stranger she just met, informing Phoebe that she is too uptight and immature, casually mentioning that she's never even had a boyfriend.
Public Domain (2003)
, 1h30Genres Comédie
Acteurs Nicole de Boer, Lindy Booth, Don McKellar, Nadia Litz, Dov Tiefenbach, Salvatore Antonio
Rôle Terry
Note39%
Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
, 1h32Réalisé par Aaron Woodley
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Horreur, Romance
Acteurs Michael Pitt, Paige Turco, Gale Harold, Jackie Burroughs, Matt Servitto, Nadia Litz
Rôle Ann
Note61%
Inside Job (2003)
, 1h31Réalisé par Nicolas Winding Refn
Origine Danemark
Genres Thriller, Horreur
Acteurs John Turturro, James Remar, Deborah Kara Unger, William Allen Young, Gene Davis, Nadia Litz
Rôle Ellen
Note59%
Harry Caine, vigile, ne se remet pas de la mort de Claire, son épouse, tuée par balles dans le parking du centre commercial où il travaille. La police n'a pas retrouvé le meurtrier. L'enquête piétine. Alors, Harry, hanté par le souvenir de sa femme, tente de résoudre le mystère. Grâce à son travail, il récupère les cassettes vidéo de surveillance, passe son temps à les visionner et à les analyser minutieusement, à la recherche du moindre indice. Au fur et à mesure, il accroche au mur les photographies de témoins ou de suspects potentiels. Un jour, une piste le conduit dans l'Etat du Montana, vers une certaine Kate, dont le mari, Peter, un policier, aurait été la dernière personne à croiser Claire.
, 9minutesRéalisé par Brad Peyton
Origine Canada
Genres Fantasy, Horreur
Acteurs Nadia Litz, Joshua Close, Sunday Muse, Maurice Dean Wint
Rôle Evelyn
Note70%
The film is about an evil living dead girl named Evelyn who decides that she needs friends. Her gifts for other girls (including a crow's heart) only scare them. Evelyn then tries to resurrect herself through suicide, after reading a book entitled How to Kill Yourself Back to Life. Her suicide attempts fail; part of the problem is that she wastes her bullets killing birds instead of herself, and she swings on her rope instead of hanging herself. Eventually, one boy (Close) is killed in a bus accident and becomes a living dead friend for her.
Les Cinq sens (1999)
, 1h46Réalisé par Jeremy Podeswa
Origine Canada
Genres Drame, Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Mary-Louise Parker, Pascale Bussières, Gabrielle Rose, Molly Parker, Brendan Fletcher, Philippe Volter
Rôle Rachel Seraph
Note66%
Les Cinq Sens raconte les histoires inter-reliées de cinq personnes, résidentes du même immeuble, dont les vies sont dominées par l'un ou l'autre des cinq sens.
Les Puissants (1998)
, 1h48Réalisé par Peter Chelsom
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Aventure
Thèmes Buddy movie
Acteurs Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, James Gandolfini
Rôle Girl in Diner
Note71%
Kevin Dillon et sa mère emménagent dans la maison attenante à celle où vit Maxwell Kane avec ses grands-parents. Kevin est un petit Einstein à la langue bien pendue mais affublé d'un appareil orthopédique tandis que Max, qui a treize ans, est anormalement développé pour son âge. Ces deux jeunes garçons hors du commun, que les voyous du quartier nomment Frankenstein et Igor, vont s'unir et choisissent la plus noble des missions tels les Chevaliers de la Table ronde : réparer les torts, exterminer les dragons, ceci dans le royaume féroce de leur ville.
Hidden in America (1996)
, 1h33Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison, Alice Krige, Jena Malone, Frances McDormand, Dan Petronijevic
Rôle Checker
Note66%
Willa and Caroline are playing hide and seek at Caroline's house. As Willa runs through the house looking for a place to hide we see that Caroline's house is very upscale. It's three stories with a swimming pool and expensive furniture. Robbie is hiding in a tree across the street watching his sister. He is supposed to pick up Willa but he waits until after the Millerton's let Willa eat dinner with them before he knocks on the door.
Réalisatrice
The People Garden (2015)
, 1h20Réalisé par Nadia Litz
Origine Canada
Genres Drame
Acteurs Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, François Arnaud, James LeGros, Liane Balaban
Note48%
Sweetpea se rend au Japon pour rompre avec son petit ami rocker. Pendant son séjour, elle découvre qu’il a disparu pendant le tournage d'un clip vidéo dans la forêt d'Aokigahara, un lieu populairement utilisé comme site de suicide.
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The People Garden (2015)
, 1h20Réalisé par Nadia Litz
Origine Canada
Genres Drame
Acteurs Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, François Arnaud, James LeGros, Liane Balaban
Rôle Ecrivain
Note48%
Sweetpea se rend au Japon pour rompre avec son petit ami rocker. Pendant son séjour, elle découvre qu’il a disparu pendant le tournage d'un clip vidéo dans la forêt d'Aokigahara, un lieu populairement utilisé comme site de suicide.