FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY
Candice Reisser is a New York City native and honors graduate of both the drama and filmmaking programs at New York University. While at NYU she interned for Scott Rudin (academy award winning producer of such films as "No Country for Old Men" and "Revolutionary Road"), Lynda Obst (producer of films including "Sleepless in Seattle" and "The Fisher King") and the literary development department at Paramount Pictures. From there she spent several years working in local theater, commercials and independent film before relocating to Berlin, Germany. It was there that she worked as an assistant to Niki Müllerschön the director of "The Red Baron" and developed two scripts for Niama Film; a fantasy adaptation of a 1960s children's comedy series called "Catweazle", and "My Friend Matt and Hena the Whore", an adaptation of Adam Zameenzad's tender, epic novel of famine and war in East Africa. "Protect the Nation" is her first (short)film as writer and director.