FCP - Nick Gilbert: Director - Ep #6

Nickolas Gilbert is a Writer/Director/Producer based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked in the film business for over twenty years in both the camera and art departments, as well as writing, producing and directing his own projects. He has worked in the camera department on major feature films such as Oz the Great & Powerful and Red Dawn and network television shows such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Strange Angel. Following his passion to mentor the next generation of filmmakers to good story, well told, he teaches filmmaking workshops at the Studio School in Los Angeles and with the Curacao Film Institute in the Dutch Antilles. In his creative work, he is concentrating on bringing his own projects to fruition through Distortion Field, his development and production company. He has several feature length screenplays circulating the spec market, usually has a short film on the festival circuit and can often be found developing and writing new stories. He holds an MFA in screenwriting from Maine Media College and is a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.