Nina Menkes
Born: 1965-10-12 in California, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- No Mercy as Herself
2024
- Her World as herself
2022
- Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power as Self
- The Lioness ... (Director)
2010
- Dissolution ... (Director)
2007
- Water Spell ... (Thanks)
- Phantom Love ... (Director)
2006
- Untitled #1 ... (Director)
2005
- Massacre ... (Co-Director)
1996
- The Bloody Child ... (Director)
1991
- Queen of Diamonds ... (Editor)
1986
- Magdalena Viraga ... (Director)
1983
- The Great Sadness of Zohara ... (Director)
1981
- A Soft Warrior ... (Director)