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Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning producer of documentary and narrative films. Her debut feature documentary about Cuba's revolutionary architecture, Unfinished Spaces (2011), was broadcast on PBS, HBO Latin America, and Al-Jazeera "Witness," won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, numerous film festival prizes, and was selected for Sundance Film Forward. She recently produced the fiction feature No Light and No Land Anywhere by director Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 2016 L.A. Film Festival. Her documentary producing credits include the Kino Lorber and PBS American Masters release Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq directed by Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese (New York Film Festival, Berlinale, 2013); Shield and Spear by director Petter Ringborn (Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2014); Academy Award-nominated director Jennifer Redfearn's ITVS/PBS feature Tocando La Luz (Full Frame Jury Prize, 2015). Nahmias was a 2013 Film Independent Fellow. Her work has been shown at festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including the Venice Biennale and MoMA.
Most Popular Alysa Nahmias Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
01 August 2024
DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors, treatments, and disability in real life.
30 September 2022
While locked-up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art—including an astonishing 40-foot mural made with prison bed sheets, hair gel, and newspaper.
07 January 2017
Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old.
15 March 2024
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle.
09 February 2019
About five never completed films made between 1978 and 1992 before the backdrop of the various communist regimes that came to power in Afghanistan.
01 May 2022
Mobile homes have long been an affordable option for people who struggle with the cost of other housing in the United States.
30 August 2024
Three Trump supporters from different backgrounds unite to campaign across America in 2020, advocating for his re-election while laying foundations for what they hope will be a long-lasting political movement.
07 August 2026
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.
17 October 2019
When radical Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago in 1937, he spearheaded “The New Bauhaus,” a movement descended from the famous German school.
20 October 2017
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head.
21 December 2022
Back from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.
04 March 2022
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or paradoxically rendered invisible, ignored or dismissed by society.
09 June 2011
Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
08 June 2025
What happens when art meets trash? Maintenance Artist profiles pioneering public artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles — the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Department of Sanitation.
04 June 2026
Explores the life and aspirations of Oliver, a rambunctious and imaginative preteen growing up with disabilities, who’s an avowed murder-mystery aficionado about to craft the perfect mystery caper.
