Talent Guide
Nicholas Greene
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- Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
- Program Year:Directing Lab 2013, Producing Lab 2013
Bio
Nicholas Greene is a British filmmaker based in New York. His short film Salar, made in Bolivia with the country’s only film school, won the 2011 Austin Film Festival Jury Award and was shortlisted for the Oscars. He was selected for the Cine Qua Non Screenwriters Lab in Mexico and the Berlin Talent Campus in 2011. As a producer, he works with Jolyon Symonds, and has two projects in development with the BFI: Travels with My Aunt, based on the novel by Graham Greene, and The White Tiger, based on the Booker prize winning novel by Aravind Adiga. He previously worked for Paramount Pictures and holds an MFA in film from Columbia University. Greene works as an editor for non-profit documentary projects.
Current Project
A Death in the AndesLogline
In a desperate attempt to save his mother from a rare disease, Carlos, a fiery campesino from the Bolivian highlands, ventures to the city and attempts to abduct an American doctor. As they are caught up in a world of urban criminals and a violent local protest, he is forced to confront both his distrust of foreigners and his fear of death.