Director
Nina Menkes
61 years · California, USA · 10 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 10
No Mercy
2026 · Self
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · Self, Director
On Kanopy
Dissolution
2010 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Phantom Love
2007 · Director, Editor
On Kanopy
Massacre
2005 · Cinematography
The Bloody Child
1996 · Director
On Kanopy
Queen of Diamonds
1991 · Editor, Director
On Plex
Magdalena Viraga
1986 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
The Great Sadness of Zohara
1983 · Director
On Kanopy
A Soft Warrior
1981 · Director