Director

Nina Menkes

Directing

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1038016

IMDb ID: nm0579690

Known for: Directing

Born: October 12, 1965

Age: 60

Place of birth: California, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1981 - 2026

Years active: 46

Average TMDB rating: 6

Wikidata: Q7038032

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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.

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