Riding The Tiger Projects
Riding The Tiger Productions adapts fiction and nonfiction books and short stories to film, translating the essence and power of a story told in print into the language of visual storytelling. Riding The Tiger Productions also provides script-doctoring to shape new projects and polish film treatments and screenplays, with an emphasis on character-driven stories with cultural resonance and a humane point of view.


TWO SPIRITS - 
A Film by Lydia Nibley
Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Rise - An original pilot for a television series written by Lydia Nibley and Russell Martin A rule‐breaking doctor, who has recently moved to Rise, Arizona with her new husband and two teenage daughters, discovers that the experimental medication she is prescribing to her patients surprisingly lifts their libidos, their spirits, and their passion for life—and that when it comes to better living through chemistry things are never as simple as they may seem.

It's Complicated - A radio piece by Lydia Nibley broadcast internationally by the BBC The story begins in front of Picasso's great painting Guernica on September 11, 2001, and continues on a journey to the town of Gernika in Basque country in northern Spain, a town destroyed by a new kind of warfare, a strike from the sky against a symbolic target, with many innocent people dead, as a means of terrorizing the civilian population during the Spanish Civil War. When asked about current ETA terrorism, the young Basque woman acting as interpreter justified the ongoing violence, repeating the phrase, "It's complicated." 


IN DEVELOPMENT - DOCUMENTARY FILM IN HER HONOR The film examines how ancient ideas can be challenged and changed at the deepest levels of the human psyche. IN HER HONOR tells the stories of three men who committed honor killings--one Muslin, one Hindu, and one Christian. It enters tribal, religious, and family worlds where men are the final authority and killing is defended with the logic, “A man is like a piece of gold, when he is dirtied he can easily be washed clean. But a woman is like silk, when she is dirtied she cannot be cleaned and she must be destroyed.”