Nina Paley

Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which combines the Indian epic Ramayana with 1920's pop recordings of Annette Hanshaw. More recently she made This Land Is Mine, a short about Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant intended for a larger project, Seder-Masochism. Prior to becoming an animator she was a syndicated cartoonist, and still occasionally draws the webcomic Mimi and Eunice. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence in 2008, where she produced a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes. She is currently developing techniques to combine animation with some of her other passions, quilting and embroidery.