NB Mager
WRITER DIRECTOR
run amok
The Oscar-qualifying, award-winning short film is now on Vimeo Staff Picks.
RUN AMOK is about a teenage girl who decides to stage a full, musical reenactment of the tragedy that took place at her high school 10 years ago.
A biting satire of American gun culture that employs dark comedy and rock music to blistering effect.
The feature script was a quarter-finalist for the Academy Nicholl and Final Draft Big Break prizes, and second round finalist for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab.
The feature is currently in early pre-production, set to shoot in Summer 2024.
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Diving in
Starring Maria Dizzia, DIVING IN is a short film about a woman who discovers she has a Holocaust museum inside her vagina.
The film has played at film festivals including Cinequest, IFF Boston, Cleveland IFF, and Florida IFF.
QILY
Quarantine, I Love You took part in the 2021 Beyond Film program at the Sundance Film Festival, with a special capsule collection of episodes.
QILY is a collection of short, interconnected scenes that take place on zoom. Speaking to the moment, in the medium of our times. It has received support the National Endowment for the Arts.
QILY Episodes Star:
Ali Wentworth, Denis O'Hare, Bridget Regan, Maria Dizzia, Daniel Talbott, Ruffin Prentiss, David Rasche, Heather Rasche, Jayne Houdyshell, Michael Chernus, Laura Gomez, Jay O. Sanders, Geneva Carr, Trieste Kelly Dunn, and introducing Injoy Fountain.
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Nitzan Bachar "NB" Mager is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker crafting whip-smart, socially conscious comedy.
She recently wrapped production on her first feature, THOUGHTS&PRAYERS, starring Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Elizabeth Marvel, Molly Ringwald, Yul Vasques, Bill Camp, and newcomer Alyssa Marvin.
Other works include the award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film, RUN AMOK, which premiered as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Her web anthology series, QUARANTINE, I LOVE YOU took part in the Beyond Film program of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and starred Ali Wentworth, Denis O’Hare, Michael Chernus, Maria Dizzia, among others.
The screenplay for THOUGHTS&PRAYERS was a quarterfinalist for the Academy Nicholl and FinalDraft Big Break prizes, and a second rounder for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab.
Her short films have screened and garnered awards at film festivals across the country, as well as Gotham Film Week, and have won awards from the National Board of Review, New York Women in Film and Television.
NB also directed a short documentary film on Gloria Steinem for her receipt of the John Jay Medal of Justice, for which NB interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Formerly an actor, NB trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and at Rutgers University. She brings her passion and respect for the craft of acting to her work as a writer-director.
Films
A selection of Nitzan's work
