Mirra Bank began her film work with editorial contributions to the Academy Award-winning features, WOODSTOCK; and HARLAN COUNTY, USA; and to GIMME SHELTER, the Maysles’ iconic portrait of Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones. She created films for the Emmy Award-winning public television series, THE 51ST STATE; and numerous films for PBS. Her feature adaptation of three stories by Grace Paley, ENORMOUS CHANGES (Sundance premiere) starred Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, and David Strathairn. Her Academy Award-shortlisted, LAST DANCE, follows a stormy Holocaust-themed collaboration between Maurice Sendak and Pilobolus. THE ONLY REAL GAME (Netflix premiere) is an unlikely baseball story set in troubled northeast India, narrated by Academy Award-winner, Melissa Leo. NOBODY’S GIRLS, a nonfiction PBS special about women in the Old West, features Cloris Leachman, Esther Rolle, and Tantoo Cardinal. Bank filmed NO FEAR NO FAVOR, about protecting Africa’s wildlife, on the frontlines of the poaching crisis. Bank is a member of The Academy, Documentary Branch; a past President and Advisory Board member of NY Women in Film and Television; on the Advisory Board of Sag Harbor Cinema; and on the Board of Directors of The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. She is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio as a director.
