Nina Menkes

Biography

Nina Menkes is a critically acclaimed American independent filmmaker born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to European Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution as children. She has received Fulbright Research Awards and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, while her films have screened internationally, including premieres at Sundance, Cannes, and Berlinale. 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.