Nadia Hallgren Short List: Features

Nadia Hallgren is an award-winning filmmaker from The Bronx, New York. Most recently Nadia directed BECOMING, an Emmy-nominated® documentary about former First Lady Michelle Obama that was released on Netflix in 2020. She is also the recipient of a 2021 “Outstanding Breakthrough Creative in a Motion Picture” NAACP Award for her work on the documentary. In 2019 she directed After Maria, an Academy Award-shortlisted short documentary that tells the story of three mothers displaced by Hurricane Maria. She is the recipient of the special jury prize at SXSW for She’s the Ticket and a Webby for Public Service and Activism for her film Gavin Grimm vs. Nadia is a leading documentary cinematographer, credits including Sundance award-winner Motherland and Academy Award-nominated Trouble the Water. Nadia is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an alum of International Center of Photography.