<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Palatino">Most recently, Mandy Menaker was honored with the celebrated Faculty Commendation in Producing at the 2011 NYU First Run Film Festival<i>. </i>Mandy is a three time finalist of the Wasserman/Charles and Lucile King Foundation Award for <i>Real Talk </i>(2011) which also placed second in the festival, <i>Monsters Down the Hall </i>(2010), and <i>For All Mankind </i>(2009) and has been nominated twice by the National Film Review Board. In addition, she received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award for <i>For All Mankind</i>. Mandy’s films have been seen at festivals internationally including CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. She has produced marketing web-content for the off-Broadway hit show Enter Laughing, a music feature program for NYU-TV, archival videos for the Irish Arts Center of New York City, social media for the New York Film Academy, and segments for Fairchild Fashion Group. In addition, she has been a panelist and guest lecture artist for several events at New York University, was featured in the Tisch News article “Female Filmmakers are Making their Mark,” and was the 2010 Salute Speaker at Tisch graduation ceremonies.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->