Directing
Nina Menkes
DE, EN, ZH, AR cinema · 12 credits
Born
12 October 1965 (age 61)
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.
Known for
Filmography
No Mercy
as Self
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
as Self, Director, Producer
Dissolution
Director, Writer, Editor
Phantom Love
Director, Editor
Water Spell
Thanks
Massacre
Co-Director, Director of Photography
The Bloody Child
Director
Queen of Diamonds
Editor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Magdalena Viraga
Director, Producer, Cinematography
A Soft Warrior
Director