CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON
Writer/Director - Associate Professor Convergent Media
Completed Film Projects
Alex The Vampire
Writer/Director
A short film commissioned by Sony to demonstrate the state-of-the-art F65 camera system, the CineAlta workflow and the Sony Digital Motion Picture Centre at Pinewood Studios, England.
Thirst For Blood
Writer/Director
Pilot for a web based vampire series.
Le Faucon Noir
Director/Cinematographer
A French period feature film shot on location in France about the rise and fall of a French medieval cultural icon.
Don't Call Back
Writer/Director/Executive Producer
A comedy zombie feature film made by combining industry professionals with 20 disadvantaged young people from The Prince’s Trust, each of whom were mentored, with 14 going on to get their first paid employment within the film industry directly as a result of their work on this film.
Chang
Writer
Action feature film script commissioned as a result of the 2017 China/UK Co-Production Agreement.
Graphic
Script Doctor
The re-write of a psychological thriller about a disturbed graphic novelist.
Lord Owen's Lady
Co-Writer
Joint Bollywood-UK feature film set in both India and Southern Wales.
Unbelievably British
Writer/Director
Short film that pastiches of the five different cliched genres of current British film. Premiered at National Film Theatre, accepted into Cannes Film Festival Court Métrage and 3rd most popular comedy on Raindance TV.
All Our Sins Remembered
Writer/Director
Short film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the present day and using modern-day language set in a family owned multinational company, sponsored by Kodak at and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other Work
Cinema and TV Commercials
Writer/Director
Created bespoke cinema and TV commercials for clients including British Airways, Guinness, Shell, Mercedes, Davidoff, Kodak, Granada, PEK Foods, Unilever, Lakeside, Procter & Gamble, London Transport, Bus Erin, Crisis, Marie Curie Cancer Care
TV Director
Joined the BBC on their General Training Scheme in 1986. Trained as a Vision Mixer then as an Assistant Network Director of BBC Transmission (with events including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Squarer protests) before leaving the BBC for ITV to become a Director in 1990. Spent 5 years at ITV (with events including the release of Nelson Mandela and the First Gulf War) before becoming a freelance Live TV Gallery Director. Was also hired to relaunch TARA TV, a cable and satellite TV station based in Dublin, Ireland.
Photography
Christopher passion for photography include commissions for the Fashion Industry as well as a series of photographic art gallery installations in both the UK and Europe
Music Videos
Created numerous music videos for a variety of clients including Sony Music, Polydor, Virgin Records, A&M Records, Island Records, Polygram, and BBG
Live Events
Created a number of live works including co-ordinating and directed a multi-media ballet that was premiered at London's Sadler's Wells