NYALA MOON
NYALA MOON
Nyala Moon is a director, writer, and actress of trans experience living and working in New York City.
In March 2024, Nyala Moon was selected as one of the 71 artists of the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
In October 2023, Nyala Moon’s short film Dilating For Maximum Results won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the NewFest New York LGBTQ+ film festival.
Filmmaker Magazine named Nyala one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2023.
In July 2023, Nyala Moon’s short film Dilating For Maximum Results won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding U.S. Narrative Short at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival, an academy award-qualifying film festival.
How Not To Date While Trans was selected as a part of Frameline’s 2023 Voices Short Program.
Nyala was selected to participate in GLAAD’s inaugural class for the New Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative.
Nyala was a 2022 recipient of the Newfest’s New Voices Filmmaker grant in partnership with Netflix to Support Emerging LGBTQ+ Filmmakers.
Dilating for Maximum Results
2023 Color Digital
A whacky, irreverent comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook up IRL with her online boyfriend.
Current on the festival circuit. Email for more information.
How Not To Date While Trans
2022 Color Digital
A break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.
How Not To Date While Trans premiered in 2022 and screened in over 30 festivals. It has won audience and best short awards at Newfest, InsideOut Toronto, Wicked Queer, and Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival.
Follow Nyala’s journey on IG @nyalamoon and @nyalamoonfilms
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich