Nina Parikh
Official Panelist
2023 Participant · Moderator

Nina Parikh
Nina Parikh has been with the Mississippi Film Office for 25 years, currently serving as the director. She studied filmmaking at New York University and University of Southern Mississippi, worked in the industry as a producer, and teaches a film production class at Millsaps College. She produced the Mississippi made film “Ballast” which won two awards at Sundance Film Festival 2009. Nina is a co-founder of the Crossroads Film Festival & Society and the Mississippi Film Alliance, a non-profit supporting indigenous filmmaking. She also serves on the boards of the Association of Film Commissioners International, South Arts, Mississippi Book Festival, Creative Mississippi, and is a producer of TEDxJackson.