Born in 1980, Nina Rodríguez grew up in the home of electronic music, Cologne, Germany, where she started working in Music Promotion and Event Management.
Holding a Bachelor in Film Theory, she continued her studies to focus on cinema and obtained a Master of Arts in The Presentation and Preservation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam in close collaboration with EYE Film Archive. As a student, she was involved in the International Student Network and IDFA Documentary Festival. She also helped programming the International Short Film Festival Short Cuts Cologne and worked in the Film Archive of the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Her experimental video Complication Film won an Honorable Mention at the Shadow Video Art Film Festival in London. Since 2006, she is based in Mexico and is Director of Programming for the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) where she has been involved in the development of new initiatives such as the Collegiate Production Rally, MexiCannes and most recently the GIFF residency.
Since 2009, Nina has been spending her autumns in the Middle East where she is working for the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.