Nina Menkes
Directing
- Born
- October 12, 1965 (age 61) · California, USA
Nina Menkes graduated with an MFA in film production from UCLA in 1989, has received Fulbright Research Awards to the Middle East and is a member of the film faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Her films have screened at international festivals including Sundance, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno and Toronto. Her documentary Massaker, for which she was also cinematographer, premiered at the Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Award. Her 1996 feature film The Bloody Child was selected as one of the best films of the past fifty years by the Vienna International Film Festival in Austria.
Known for
Behind the camera10
- 2022Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Director, Producer
- 2010Dissolution Director, Writer, Editor
- 2007Phantom Love Director, Editor
- 2006Untitled #1 Director
- 2005Massacre Co-Director, Director of Photography
- 1996The Bloody Child Director
- 1991Queen of Diamonds Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
- 1986Magdalena Viraga Director, Cinematography, Producer
- 1983The Great Sadness of Zohara Director
- 1981