Nian Aster is an American filmmaker. He was raised and educated in England. She worked as a journalist, environmentalist and award-winning poet, before moving to the United States to focus on a career in film.Nian is co-president, along with screenwriter Duane Adler, of the company Hungry Yak Productions. With this company she wrote, produced and acted in the feature films God's Waiting List and Actual Images: the Valley Murder Tapes. The former, a drama starring Roger Guenveur Smith and Nicki Micheaux, won awards on the festival circuit; the latter, a horror/satire, marked her feature directorial debut. She also worked as a writer on PAX Network’s Chicken Soup for the Soul. Currently she is co-authoring a remake of the Korean hit Volcano High for Showscan Entertainment.
I dream in movie format. If it's a good dream, there's cool effects and I fly around a lot. If it's a bad one, I'm stuck in a horror flick. I have this recurring nightmare that the world's been taken over by zombies. I wake up and it's true.
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This isn't filmmaking, it's f***ing guerilla warfare! We place impossible demands on our cast and crew. The miracle is, they rise to them.
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Fact
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Shares a birthday with Freddie Mercury
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Grew up in England, and is half-Chinese. Her middle name is Lovemore
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Make Your Move
2013
co-producer - as Nian Aster
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes
2008
producer - as Nian Aster
God's Waiting List
2006
executive producer - as Nian Aster / producer - as Nian Aster
The Reluctant Dominatrix
2003
Short producer - as Nian Aster
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Callous
2009
Biker Woman (as Nian Aster)
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes
2008
Nyla Blake (as Nian Aster)
God's Waiting List
2006
Rachel Shelley (as Nian Aster)
The Reluctant Dominatrix
2003
Short
Astrid (as Nian Aster)
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes
2008
written by - as Nian Aster
God's Waiting List
2006
written by - as Nian Aster
The Reluctant Dominatrix
2003
Short writer - as Nian Aster
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes
2008
as Nian Aster
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes
2008
graphic designer
Known for movies
God's Waiting List (2006) as Producer
Actual Images: The Valley Murder Tapes (2008) as Producer
$200,000
