Nina Shelton
Producer, Writer, Director
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Crossing Barriers is a scripted film company founded on three basic principles: modest budgets, strong stories highlighting women and apprenticeship participation for those under-represented in Hollywood.
The Pitch
Incorporating New Technology
Undergraduate
GRADUATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINAL PROJECT
Crossing Barriers: Scripted Film Productions
Nina Shelton is Founder and President of the startup Crossing Barriers Media, a scripted film production company. No stranger to media, she is an award-winning producer, writer and director having worked for HBO, Hallmark Channel, PBS, Disney and others.
She's developed and created over a dozen of scripted and unscripted content, and has produced hundreds of hours of programming.
Nina was a fellow recipient of the American Film Institute (AFI) Digital Content Lab. She was also a New Media Fellow with the National Black Programming Consortium through the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
Nina is currently a PBS producer with Arizona Public Media in Tucson, while earning a Masters in Entrepreneurship with the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. She received a BFA from New York University.