About

Nina Fiore graduated from Harvard College and from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

LINKEDIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninafiore/

Nina founded the Astoria Film Festival in 2018, in Astoria NY, where she and local young aspiring filmmakers from the festival teach filmmaking workshops and create short films in schools, after school programs, and community centers, throughout the year. Nina also created a Media Lab program through AFF where youth 16-28 years old get the chance to gain experience, skills, and connections to help them pursue careers in media production.  Some of those youth are placed in media indsutry internships curated by AFF, others hired by AFF to help teach in AFF Workshops and to work as producers, videographers, and editors for AFFStudio, where they create promotional videos, web series, and podcasts for local businesses and nonprofits. 

Nina has been managing and creating after school programming for many years including at the Mission Hill Housing Complex in Roxbury MA, The Children's Aid Society in Harlem, NYC, and Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens.  She was also Communications Director at The PEAR Institute: Partnerships in Education and Resilience at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a research group that works to help after school programs in Boston succeed for all students.

While at Harvard University, Nina also taught Developmental Psychology to graduate students and was Managing Editor of a peer-reviewed Academic Research Journal on Developmental Psychology.

Through her company, StudioFiore, Nina has worked in digital strategy, content development, and film and tv production for Viacom, Paramount, MTV, PBS, CBS, Sundance Film Festival, Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, and Noggin. She has also worked on  writing and directing her own short films, web series, and promotional videos, and has served as a Writer/Director/Producer/Executive Producer/1st AD on a variety of independent films.

Nina also homeschools her son and advocates for Autistic Acceptance, Inclusion, and Disability Civil Rights, with a focus on nonspeaking autistics and Neurodiversity.