
Person
Alysa Nahmias
Production · Tucson, Arizona, USA
Biography
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.
Known for

Cookie Queens
Director

Wildcat
Producer

Kids Like Me
Executive Producer

Unfinished Spaces
Director

Art & Krimes by Krimes
Director

Unrest
Producer

A Decent Home
Producer

What We Left Unfinished
Producer

The Tuba Thieves
Consulting Producer

No Light and No Land Anywhere
Producer
Filmography
- 2026Cookie QueensDirector
- 2026Kids Like MeExecutive Producer
- 2025Maintenance ArtistConsulting Producer
- 2024HomegrownExecutive Producer
- 2024Dis-EaseExecutive Producer
- 2024The Tuba ThievesConsulting Producer
- 2022WildcatProducer
- 2022Art & Krimes by KrimesDirector
- 2022A Decent HomeProducer
- 2022I Didn't See You ThereExecutive Producer
- 2019The New BauhausWriter
- 2019What We Left UnfinishedProducer
- 2017UnrestProducer
- 2017No Light and No Land AnywhereProducer
- 2011Unfinished SpacesDirector
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