Video Producer/Director
Film production and advertainment

Dina Mande is a director who uses her multi-disciplinary background in typography, visual effects, animation and filmmaking to bring the discriminating eye of a designer and heart of a storyteller to each project. She also a design and animation director, designing brands and titles for folks like Disney, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, Fox, FX Network, Discovery Channel, and A&E on feature films and television.

With the goal of attempting the title of “busiest girl on earth” she founded and created of Group101Spots,  a collective to nurture and support new commercial directors. Hosted and mentored by the top agency creatives and commercial production companies, these directors band together to build a reel, share resources, experiment, make contacts and improve their craft in a challenging and creative community.

Dina is also a co-creator of Group101Films, a filmmaking collective of Hollywood entertainment industry professionals which challenges each member to produce a short film every 30 days.  With Group101, Dina has  produced over 20 short films, including "A Dog Story” which was an official selection of the 2003 Toronto Film Festival. Her short HOTrTHnHELL was featured on AMC TV Halloween Night in Short Screamers hosted by Clive Barker. Dina's newest short, Small Change has traveled the festival circuit, playing from Singapore to Anchorage to Hollywood.

Group101Films has exploded: over 500 filmmakers have embraced the "no budget, no studio, no problem" credo to shoot a short a month for six months and  Group101 filmmakers have produced over 2,500 short films in four years, making Group101 the largest short form entertainment producer anywhere. Group101 chapters have sprung up in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Las Vegas, London, Copenhagen, Winnipeg and Karachi, Pakistan. Group101Films has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, LA Weekly, Shoot, Moviemaker magazine and on AMC TV.