Lizzie Nastro Adler - Head of Development at Emily Mortimer's company, King Bee Productions

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Lizzie Nastro Adler is currently the Head of Development for King Bee Productions, the production company created by Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola. King Bee has a first look TV deal with eOne Entertainment.

She most recently produced I Am a Town, a documentary feature directed by artist Mischa Richter, shot on 35mm, which premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2020.

She produced Skate Kitchen, a feature film written and directed by Crystal Moselle which premiered at the 2018 Sundance FF and was released nationwide by Magnolia Pictures. She is a producer on Betty, an HBO TV show, based on Skate Kitchen, currently in pre production on its second season. Additionally, she produced White Echo, the third collaboration with writer/director Chloë Sevigny. The short premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the main selection.

She produced One Cambodian Family made in conjunction with Refinery 29’s Shatterbox Anthology and TNT, starring Emily Mortimer. The short film premiered at the Sundance FF in 2019 and is in development as a series.

Nastro spent nine years at IFC Films as Director of Acquisitions & Co-Productions before becoming an independent producer. Some of the deals she negotiated include Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, Medicine for Melancholy directed by Barry Jenkins, The Pleasure of Being Robbed by the Safdie Brothers, and Myth of the American Sleepover, directed by David Robert Mitchell.