Raised in the NYC suburbs of Riverdale and Bronxville, Nick was a High Honor student, rated #2 in his senior class; Editor of the High School Newspaper; and a NY Regents Scholarship recipient. Attended University of California, Santa Cruz B.A. in Communications, the San Francisco State Grad Program in TV Broadcasting, and the American Film Institute, Grad Program in Film Production.

As a high school student, Nick won multiple awards in Art Contests, including First and Second Prize for two pieces in one competition, as well as Honorable Mention in local art shows. He studied art by making frequent trips down to to the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His primary influences are the Pop artists of the New York School, i.e., Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claus Oldenburg and the like.

Nick’s background in the area of film and TV documentary began with one year as Assistant to the Producer for Michael Pack, on the PBS Documentary, “America’s Political Parties” followed by two years as an Assistant to the Producer for Alexandra Rose, the Oscar-nominated Producer of “Norma Rae”on the feature “Quigley Down Under.” He was later a Story Analyst for famous Oscar winner Arnold Kopelson (Platoon).

He attended the American Film Institute in the Graduate Producing Program, and was the Producer of two short 35mm films, using cameras provided by Panavision under the New Filmmaker’s Program. He switched gears to Editing and became a Certified Avid Editor and was hired as an Editorial Assistant on the major PBS documentary series about Apartheid, “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?”

A true one-man band, he became a Cameraman, Editor, and Graphic Artist for an Internet company, and later was a Cinematographer for a low-budget feature.

In the last several years, Nick was hired to teach Editing, Film History and Guerrilla Filmmaking to students from all over the world at the International Academy of Film and Television, located in the island of Cebu, Philippines, and later at the prestigious San Francisco Academy of Art. He was a Series Editor for the Sportsman Channel TV show, “Hooked on the Fly.” 

In addition, he was nominated for a “Best Video” Award at the LA Music Awards. He has produced an independent feature entitled “Nutcracker: An American Nightmare”, made for a shoestring budget and sold worldwide as well as Amazon and Netflix.

He has also independently produced and directed the documentaries, “Takashi’s Dream,” and “The Brokaw Hoax,” and was a Co-Producer and Editor on two other films, “Steel Drums, Not Guns” and “On Borrowed Time,” and was a Producer and Editor for “Genghis Heroes,” and has edited a series pilot for NatGeo titled “The Grid Code.” Most recently, he was the Editor of the Documentaries “Harlem to Hollywood” and “When Houston Had the Blues,” and the feature film “An Egypt Affair,” all of which are currently available on Amazon Prime.