Introduction
Alysa Nahmias is an American director, producer, and writer of documentary films. She is the founder of Ajna Films. Nahmias directed and produced the feature documentary Unfinished Spaces, with Benjamin Murray. Unfinished Spaces won an Independent Spirit Award in 2012 and is part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.Her producing credits include Unrest, by director Jennifer Brea, which won an the Special Jury Award for Best Editing at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She also produced No Light and No Land Anywhere, by director Amber Sealey with creative advisor Miranda July, Shield and Spear, by director Petter Ringbom What We Left Unfinished, by director Mariam Ghani, and Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq by director Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese.
Nahmias has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine as an independent film innovator. She is a 2019 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow and a Film Independent Fellow. She was the co-author of a Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study on Unrest.
Life
Nahmias is originally from Tucson, Arizona. She holds degrees from The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and Princeton University.