Nina Menkes

Known for: Directing
Born: October 12, 1965
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

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No Mercy 2026
as Self
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power 2022
as Self, Director, Producer
Dissolution 2010
Director, Writer, Editor
Phantom Love 2007
Director, Editor
Water Spell 2007
Thanks
Untitled #1
Untitled #1 2006
Director
Massacre 2005
Co-Director, Director of Photography
The Bloody Child 1996
Director
Queen of Diamonds 1991
Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Magdalena Viraga 1986
Director, Cinematography, Producer
The Great Sadness of Zohara 1983
Director
A Soft Warrior 1981
Director

Credits from TMDB.