Nina Menkes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1965-10-12 (58 years old)

Place of Birth California, USA

Nina Menkes

Biography

The filmmaker 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

Director

2022
The Lioness

as Director

2010
Dissolution

as Director

2007
Phantom Love

as Director

2006
Untitled #1

as Director

2005
Massacre

as Co-Director

1996
The Bloody Child

as Director

1991
Queen of Diamonds

as Director

1986
Magdalena Viraga

as Director

1981
A Soft Warrior

as Director

Editor

2010
Dissolution

as Editor

2007
Phantom Love

as Editor

1991

Producer

1991
Queen of Diamonds

as Producer

1986
Magdalena Viraga

as Producer

Crew

2007
Water Spell

as Thanks

1986
Magdalena Viraga

as Cinematography

Camera

2005
Massacre

as Director of Photography

1991
Queen of Diamonds

as Director of Photography

Writer

2010
Dissolution

as Writer

1991

Actor

2024
Her World

as herself