Feb 3, 2009
Nina
Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for
Fluff
and The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly
Nina's Adventures.
In 1998, she began making independent animated festival films, including the controversial yet popular
environmental short, The Stork.
In 2002, Nina followed her then-husband to Trivandrum, India, where she read her first Ramayana.
This inspired her first feature film, Sita 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 Annette Hanshaw.