David Nordstrom | Director, Writer, Editor, Producer “Sawdust City”
Raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin David Nordstrom attended Hamline University before taking his MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the arts.
His film work has appeared in top festivals around the world including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Rotterdam, and the Rooftop Film Festival.
As an editor, his credits include Mike Ott’s Independent Spirit award- winning Littlerock (2010), Jacob Vaughan’s Bad Milo (2013), and Adam Rifkin’s Giuseppe Makes a Movie (2014). His acting roles include Pincus (2012) by David Fenster and Leave Me Like You Found Me (2012) by Adele Romanski.
Nordstrom also wrote, directed and starred in Sawdust City (2011), which premiered in competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Variety praised the director’s “novelistic eye for quiet, almost Joycean epiphanies,” while The Hollywood Reporter called the film “one of the year’s best American independents.”
The filmmaker resides in Los Angeles.
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