NB Mager
WRITER DIRECTOR
WILD, WHIP-SMART COMEDY + BOLD, STYLISH STORYTELLING
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.
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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A sexually-repressed multilingual translator from New Jersey must save the world (from a group of megalomaniacs plotting a nuclear-fueled global coup) by taking down the earth’s electrical grid using an explosive vagina.
STRANGE LOVE was a finalist in the second round for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and the Middlebury Script Lab and was nominated for the WriteHer list by Marta Kauffman.
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Nitzan Bachar "NB" Mager is a Brooklyn-based global citizen who crafts whip-smart, socially conscious comedy.
Her work includes the webseries QUARANTINE, I LOVE YOU featuring Denis O’Hare, Ali Wentworth, Michael Chernus and others; a commissioned short doc on GLORIA STEINEM featuring an interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and a newly wrapped short, DIVING IN, starring Maria Dizzia.
She is currently in development on two dark comedies that take on unwieldy issues with panache: RUN AMOK (American gun culture) and STRANGE LOVE (a feminist take on Dr. Strangelove– hello nuclear warfare in the 21st century).
RUN AMOK was a second round finalist for the Sundance Lab and STRANGE LOVE was a second-rounder for the Sundance, Middlebury, and Outfest screenwriting labs, the Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition, and placed in the top 20 percent for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
NB's films have screened in festivals including Palm Springs, Tallgrass, Flickers Rhode Island, Starz Denver, Woods Hole, River Run, Gotham Film Week and have won awards from the National Board of Review and NY Women in Film and Television.
A SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO LIVING AND DYING, the first feature she wrote and co-created, is a hybrid of fiction and reality where NB followed her own real-life pregnancy on film for 9 months within a fictional story.
NB's short, PERIOD PORTRAIT, a comic and provocative look at women’s reproductive cycles, won awards from the National Board of Review and New York Women in Film and Television, and screened at IFP Filmweek’s NextGenNYC series.
She is a proud member of Film Fatales and The FilmmakeHers.
Films
A selection of Nitzan's work
