Nicholas Weissman

About Nicholas Weissman

Nicholas Weissman is an Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and Director at Vacationland, a documentary studio that makes uncommon films on common ground. With over 15 years of experience in film and video production, Weissman has led projects ranging from long-form feature documentaries to time-sensitive short-form video pieces for major print and network news outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, and National Geographic Society. He\'s an active member of Documentary Producers Alliance, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Video Consortium, and is a Sundance Producing Fellow. Weissman is passionate about telling stories that help make the world make sense, collaborating with a community of award-winning filmmakers across the globe. His feature, For Ahkeem, premiered at Berlinale Film Festival and won a 2018 Cinema Eye Honors Award. Recent films include We the Power for Patagonia, Havana Libre, A Wonderful Kingdom, Row of Life, and the upcoming A City in the Forest.Alongside documentary projects, he has partnered with commercial clients such as Amex, Land Rover, Cadillac, Volvo, British Airways, Ray Ban, Visit California, Nike, Levi\'s, Microsoft, and Intel. He has also traveled to more than 20 countries, including Russia, Haiti, Cuba, South Africa, Japan, India, and Colombia, to capture and share diverse perspectives and experiences.

Experience

1. Executive Producer Director

   Vacationland

   Dec 2013 — Present

   Vacationland is a documentary studio making uncommon films on common ground. Since 2014, we’ve been producing Original stories and Commissioned works to help make the world make sense.Everything we do comes from our hunt and gather method: We bring together a community of award winning filmmakers all over the planet to manage end-to-end production, from development to delivery. Vacationland has offices in New York and California, but We’ve Been Looking Everywhere.

Education

• Brooks Institute

  Bachelor of Arts, Visual Journalism

  2003 — 2006

• Brooks Institute

  Bachelor's degree, Documentary Filmmaking

  2003 — 2006

Skills

• Dvd Studio Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Video
• Photoshop
• Soundtrack Pro
• Spanish
• Film
• Indesign
• Still Photography
• Medium Format
• Film Production
• Hd Video
• Flash
• Video Editing
• Video Production
• Dreamweaver
• Camera Operating
• Illustrator
• Image Manipulation
• Sorenson Squeeze
• Journalism
• Editing
• Mac
• Multimedia
• Photojournalism
• Entertainment
• Documentaries
• Post Production
• Storytelling
• Broadcast
• Photography
• Creative Direction
• Cinematography
• Television
• Video Post-Production
• Camera Operation
• Broadcasting