Laura Nix
Executive Producer, Writer
Laura Nix is a director, writer, and producer working in non-fiction and fiction. Her short film, WALK RUN CHA-CHA, was nominated for a 2020 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, and the New York Times series, FROM HERE TO HOME, in which the film appears, was nominated for a 2020 News and Documentary Emmy. Her feature documentary, INVENTING TOMORROW, won a 2019 Peabody Award. Laura also directed the feature documentaries THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, THE LIGHT IN HER EYES and WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT: THE STORY OF HEDWIG, as well as the award-winning fiction feature THE POLITICS OF FUR. She was named a 2018 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker and was awarded the Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship in 2017. Laura has a BA in History from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and an MFA in Visual Studies from University of California San Diego. Raised in New York state and based in Los Angeles, she is a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the Executive Committee of the Documentary Branch.