Nina Paley\xa0started out as a comic strip artist, including for\xa0Fluff\xa0and\xa0The Hots, as the weekly\xa0Nina's Adventures\xa0and then shifted to make independent animated films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short,\xa0The Stork.
In 2002,\xa0Nina\xa0followed her then-husband to\xa0Trivandrum, India, where she read her first\xa0Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film,\xa0Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend\xa0Annette Hanshaw.
More recently, Nina worked on the segment On Children, a segment in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and the short This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history.\xa0
Her latest feature film, Seder-Masochism, is an animated musical comedy-drama reinterpreting events from the Book of Exodus, especially stories associated with the Passover Seder.