Nina Streich has an extensive background in the film, television, and media industries, and in the political arena. She held senior management positions in several film festivals before creating the Global Peace Film Festival in 2003. Nina began her career as a film editor, producing trailers for major studio and independent features, including The Elephant Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Scandal, and has produced several documentaries. In politics, she was the New York Finance Director for the Dukakis Presidential Campaign and for the DNC in 1987 and 1988. She coordinated the Inauguration of NYC Mayor David N. Dinkins in 1990 and was appointed Deputy Film Commissioner for the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. After leaving the Mayor’s Office, she was Deputy Executive Director of the NYC Host Committee for the 1994 Grammy Awards. An accomplished events producer, she has organized film premiers, music festivals, conferences, parades and street fairs.