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Nina Paley is the director of the acclaimed animated feature film “Sita Sings the Blues,” which is about to release under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. “Sita” has screened internationally at almost 100 film festivals and won awards including Best Feature at Annecy and Avignon, Best Script at Athens, Greece, and an IFP Gotham Award. Wired called her a “One-Woman Pixar” and Roger Ebert said of her film: “I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original.” Nina is also a longtime veteran of syndicated comic strips, creating Fluff (Universal Press Syndicate), The Hots (King Features), and her own alternative weekly Nina’s Adventures. Nina teaches at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at QuestionCopyright.org.