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NB Mager

WRITER  DIRECTOR

WILD, WHIP-SMART COMEDY + BOLD, STYLISH STORYTELLING

Current Work

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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Maria Dizzia Gloria Bess, Matilda Szydagis, Sheilagh Weymouth a film by Rowan Meyer & Nitz

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. 

writer+
director

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.

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Bio

Films

A selection of Nitzan's work

Films
RUN AMOK
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RUN AMOK

A teenage girl decides to stage a full, musical reenactment of the tragedy that took place at her high school 10 years ago. Oscar qualifying for Best Live Action Short, 2023 WINNER: Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Short | IFFBoston WINNER: Best Narrative Short Film | Beyond, The Cary Film Festival WINNER: Honorable Mention | Tallgrass Film Festival FESTIVALS: Cinequest Film Festival Hollyshorts Film Festival Bentonville Film Festival Cleveland Film Festival Boston Independent Film Festival Hell's Half Mile Festival Woods Hole Film Festival Florida Film Festival Tallgrass Film Festival Cordillera Film Festival Cinema Columbus Film Festival Beyond, The Cary Film Festival ShortCom Film Festival, London El Paso Film Festival FunCinema Film Festival, Argentina Centre Film Festival CAST: ALYSSA EMILY MARVIN • MEG GENEVA CARR • PRINCIPAL LINDA ZOE WILSON • PENNY BRANDON J. DIRDEN • MR. SHELBY ROWAN MEYER • MR. FLINT (VOICE) CREW: NITZAN MAGER • WRITER, DIRECTOR LELA MEADOW-CONNER • PRODUCER ELIA PETRIDIS • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHACHAR LANGLEV • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY KATE RANCE • PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGNER TOM DOMINGUES • EDITOR NATALIA IYUDIN • EDITOR & CO-PRODUCER KRISTINA JAMES • COMPOSER ERICA A. HART • CASTING DIRECTOR JUDITH KENNY • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER DEVIN BERKO • LINE PRODUCER CHRISTOPHER JAMES LOPEZ • UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER ASHLEY GEORGE • FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR KATE BURDUZHAN • SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & SCRIPT SUPERVISOR IRYNA DEMIANIUK • ASSISTANT PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN SUSAN MEI • 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA WARUT SNIDVONGS • GAFFER NELLI TOTH • KEY GRIP PRABHAT GURUNG • GRIP JAKARI LISTER • GRIP RACHEL VILLEGAS • SOUND MIXER COLETTE SWEENEY • HAIR & MAKEUP TAMAR ROGOFF • CHOREOGRAPHER SOPHIA SHEDD • HARPIST OFER WOLBERGER • SET PHOTOGRAPHER OTHER NYC • VISUAL EFFECTS YIBIN ‘AB’ SU • COLORIST QUENTIN CHIAPPETTA • SOUND DESIGN & EDITING KIAH AMARA • ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANT

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